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Book SynopsisA study of the notion of the everyday in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein that explores the interdependence of expressive form and the conceptualization or framing of questions about thinking, feeling, and communicating.
Trade ReviewI myself, after reading The Aesthetic Commonplace, look forward with renewed pleasure to rereading George Eliot. * George J. Leonard, San Francisco State University, Modern Philology *
Her method has been remarkably consistent. I myself, after reading The Aesthetic Commonplace, look forward with renewed pleasure to rereading George Eliot. * George J. Leonard, Modern Philology *
The Aesthetic Commonplace is a carefully argued, detailed and very scholarly study. * A. G. van den Broek, George Eliot Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Overlooked and Underfelt: Reading in Earnest 1: The General, The Particular, and the Art of the Commonplace 2: A Novel Concerning Human Understanding: Middlemarch and the Philosophical Commonplace 3: When we feel the truth of a commonplace": Form and Inflection in Eliot and Wittgenstein 4: The Spirit of the Commonplace, or When does it make sense to use the word "soul"? Coda: On Literature, Philosophy, and Undisciplined Reading
