Patrick Fessenbecker

Bio

Patrick Fessenbecker is an Assistant Professor in the Program for Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas at Bilkent University. He is the author of Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). His research has appeared in such journals as New Literary HistoryELHThe British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Victorian Studies, and he has written public scholarship for venues like the Stanford Arcade, The Victorian Web, and most recently Aesthetics for Birds.

Contributions

From the Print Journal
© 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press Sam Rose’s compelling new book Art and Form begins with the observation that modernist formalism has suffered severe blows to its reputation since its heyday in Clement Greenberg’s aesthetics, but argues that many of its critics have been attacking straw men. The supposed doxa of formalist aesthetics—that there is an autonomous realm of aesthetic experience, that this realm is radically separated from the world and available only to the sophisticated, and...