... Eliot’s enlivening of details to her engagement with nineteenth-century aesthetics, specifically Hegel’s Aesthetics (1835), which describes the profuse details of genre painting and poetry to be generated and animated by a reflective, inward modern subjectivity. Hegel’s thought converges with Eliot’s use...

... of the written word—for the all-consuming holocaust. Rather, he argues that the pyre yields a transformative and unexpected effect on the aesthetic and temporal qualities of the texts. Drawing on contemporary accounts of book burnings, Hawthorne generates a productive vision of the act by which the fire...