Pressestimmen
"Pease's energetic writing style enlivens the impressively dense scholarship that underwrites the argument throughout her book...Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity will speak to students and professors of aesthetics, philosophy, and literature, and it should serve as a model of interdisciplinary engagement for scholars throughout the humanities." South Central Review "...Pease has produced a provocative book likely to stir some controversy in academic circles." Choice "Pease contributes significantly to the study of this compelling topic." Modernism/Modernity "This is an impressive book-elegantly conceived and suffused with intelligence...The book is meticulously researched and exceptionally well-documented, with clear, eloquently chiseled arguementation unusually strong in its logic and relatively free of obfuscating jargon...Throughout her study, she does an excellent job of positioning eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century aesthetic philosophies within the cultural politics of their respective times..." English Literature in Transition "Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity offers a rich addition to studies of the limits of representation and material culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...provocative, highly persuasive..." The Wordsworth Circle
Über das Produkt
This book explores the relationship between art and pornography from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Allison Pease focuses on how writers such as Swinburne, Joyce and Lawrence and artist Aubrey Beardsley shifted the boundaries between aesthetics and pornography first established in the 1700s to reinforce class distinctions.
