Catherine E Kelly

Republic of Taste

Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the intersection of the early republic's material, visual, literary, and political cultures, Republic of Taste demonstrates how American thinkers upheld the similarities between aesthetics and politics in order to wrestle with questions about power and authority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224894
• ISBN-10: 0812224892
• Artikelnr.: 60602287

Autorenporträt

Catherine E. Kelly is Affiliated Professor of History at William and Mary and Editor of Books at the Omohundro Institute. She is author of In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The American Republic of Taste
Chapter 1. Learning Taste
Chapter 2. Aesthetic Entrepreneurs
Chapter 3. Picturing Race
Chapter 4. Looking Past Loyalism
Chapter 5. Waxing Political
Chapter 6. Political Personae
Epilogue. The Nation's Guest in the Republic of Taste
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments