Aesthetics and Politics of Society in Henry James'sThe Tragic Muse

Abstract

n Henry James'sThe Tragic Muse,the aesthetics emerges in the politics of society. Society and its mode of production condition and determine art, literature, painting and performances. The art, literature and performances are guided by the ideologies of the upper class people of the society and its mode ofproduction. In addition to this, they create their own autonomy for rebelling the existing society. The behaviors of the bourgeois people like Peter Sherringham and Julia Dallow towards the artists Nick and Miriam also support to justify that aesthetics isan outcome of the society and its mode of production.