Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life

Author:   Lucy Hartley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   106
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9781107184084


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life


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Author:   Lucy Hartley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   106
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9781107184084


ISBN 10:   1107184088
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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.

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'... this is a very interesting and timely book ...' Simon Grimble, Notes and Queries


'... this is a very interesting and timely book ...' Simon Grimble, Notes and Queries '... this is a very interesting and timely book ...' Simon Grimble, Notes and Queries


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Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. 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, aesthetic theories in the nineteenth-century novel, and John Ruskin. She is the editor of The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 (forthcoming).

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