Aesthetics and the End(s) of American Cultural Studies

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Reclaiming the aesthetic, emphasizing the "literary" in literary studies, conceptualizing a new formalism: such recent appeals represent the latest turn in ongoing debates about art and aesthetic ideology. Intervening in these debates--often characterized by predictable oppositions that set art against social action, structure against cultural practice, and the so-called imaginaries of affect against the putative reality of politics--this special issue of "American Literature "asks, what's new about the "new aesthetics, " and what implications does this shifting ideology have for social and cultural thinking?