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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Series Number 106: Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life
Lucy Hartley
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hardcover. This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 350 pages, 35 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: ACV; DSBF; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked to emerging ideals of equality, liberty, and individuality. Examining British art and art writing by Charles Lock Eastlake, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward Poynter, William Morris, and John Addington Symonds, Hartley traces a debate about what it means to be interested in beauty and whether this preoccupation is necessary ... Read more
Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked to emerging ideals of equality, liberty, and individuality. Examining British art and art writing by Charles Lock Eastlake, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward Poynter, William Morris, and John Addington Symonds, Hartley traces a debate about what it means to be interested in beauty and whether this preoccupation is necessary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107184084
SKU
V9781107184084
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About Lucy Hartley
Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Cambridge, 2001), and essays on a wide range of subjects including intellectual history and art history, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, and nineteenth-century aesthetic theories. She is the editor of The ... Read more
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