Lucy Hartley

Gebundenes Buch

Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Art and the Politics of Public Life

Beschreibung

This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

Autor

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 History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 (2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9781107184084
• ISBN-10: 1107184088
• Artikelnr.: 48399140