| British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Maltz, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349523143 ISBN-13: 9781349523146 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 290 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility. |