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The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
Linda Dowling
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hardcover. Reinterpreting the Victorian aesthetic movement, this volume traces the genealogy of Victorian aestheticism back to the great crisis of the Whig polity in the earlier-18th century. It also examines the influence and consequences of Anthony Ashley Cooper's theory of a universal moral sense. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; ABA; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.
The Vulgarization of Art explores the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's assumption of ""aristocratic soul"" and the Victorian ideal of ""aesthetic democracy"" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation through the ... Read more
In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.
The Vulgarization of Art explores the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's assumption of ""aristocratic soul"" and the Victorian ideal of ""aesthetic democracy"" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation through the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813916347
SKU
V9780813916347
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