Lucy Hartley

Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Art and the Politics of Public Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9781107184084
• ISBN-10: 1107184088
• Artikelnr.: 48399140

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Of universal or national interest': Charles Eastlake, the Fine Arts
Commission, and the Reform of Taste; 2. Reconstituting publics for art:
John Ruskin and the Appeal to Enlightened Interest; 3. The pleasures and
perils of self-interest: calculating the passions in Walter Pater's essays;
4. Figuring the individual in the collective: the 'art-politics' of Edward
Poynter and William Morris; 5. The humanist interest old and new: John
Addington Symonds and the nature of liberty.