Dabney Townsend

Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Containing twenty-two essays, including Dabney Townsend's essay on the development of eighteenth century aesthetics to make the history of aesthetics accessible to both students and specialists alike.

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Produktdetails

• Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9780415772334
• ISBN-10: 0415772338
• Artikelnr.: 52963292

Autorenporträt

Dabney Townsend

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 1
John Dryden: "Introduction" to Charles du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica (1695)
Chapter 2
John Dennis: A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry, and the Causes of the
Degeneracy of It (1702)
Chapter 3
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men,
Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
Chapter 4
Joseph Addison: The Spectator (1712)
Chapter 5
Francis Hutcheson: Reflection on Laughter (1725)
An Inquiry Into The Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725)
Chapter 6
James Harris: Three Treatises (1744)
Chapter 7
John Baillie: An Essay on the Sublime (1744)
Chapter 8
Samuel Johnson: The Rambler (1751)
Chapter 9
William Hogarth: Analysis of Beauty, Written with a View of Fixing the
Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (1753)
Chapter 10
David Hume: Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion (1742)
Of Tragedy (1757)
Of the Standard of Taste (1757)
Chapter 11
Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and Beautiful (1757/1759)
Chapter 12
Alexander Gerard: An Essay on Taste (1759)
Chapter 13
Joseph Priestly: A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism (1759/1777)
Chapter 14
Daniel Webb: An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting and into the Merits
of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern (1760)
Chapter 15
Henry Home, Lord Kames: Elements of Criticism (1762)
Chapter 16
Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Idler, No. 76, 79, 82 (1757)
Discourses on Art (1776)
Chapter 17
James Beattie: Essays on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind (1762)
Chapter 18
Hugh Blair: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783)
Chapter 19
Archibald Alison: Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790)
Chapter 20
William Gilpin: Three Essays (1791)
Chapter 21
Uvedale Price: An Essay on the Picturesque as Compared with the Sublime and
Beautiful (1794)
Chapter 22
Adam Smith: Of the Nature of that Imitation which Takes Place in What are
Called the Imitative Arts ((1795)
Index