%0 Journal Article
%T From Politics to Pope: An Account of the Group Aesthetic
%J Humanities | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010032
%X This paper discusses the study of Chartist and working-class literatures, noting that the pronounced development of aesthetic criticism in these areas uncomfortably corresponds with the rejection of ¡°aesthetics¡± in other fields. Chartist, working-class, and laboring-class scholars have broken free from monolithically sociological or political readings that only a generation ago too often dismissed artistic endeavors as, at best, merely a re-accenting of the mainstream. Current studies focus on the aesthetic innovations that emerged out of working-class entanglements with mainstream counterparts. The paper argues that the rejection of ¡°aesthetics¡± generally fails to recognize marginalized and group aesthetics (including the critical work done on marginalized and group aesthetics) and specifically what it meant for a political cohort¡ªthe Chartists are my example¡ªto think aesthetically. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/1/32