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David Wayne ThomasPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2004Availability
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In this provocative and historically detailed reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism, David Wayne Thomas challenges current critical assumptions concerning modern liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Through meticulous examinations of literature, visual arts, popular culture, and politics, Cultivating Victorians shows how a mid-Victorian liberal discourse of individual “many-sidedness”–understood as a cultivated disposition toward self-criticism and open-mindedness–was taken up by artists and writers as they claimed for art a self-reflecting agency at the core of the liberal ideal. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Liberalism in literature
- Culture — Political aspects — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Culture — Social aspects — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Liberalism — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Aesthetics, British — 19th century
- Great Britain — History — Victoria, 1837-1901
- Great Britain — Civilization — 19th century
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Contents
- Cultivating Victorians
- Reflections of agency in Ruskin’s Venice
- The work of imposture: the Victorian public and the Tichborne case
- Replicating agency: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester
- Against originality: Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic agency
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- 0812237544
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