Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel /

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"Drawing on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Marjorie Garson discusses a number of Victorian texts that treat aesthetic refinement as an essential mark of proper middle-class subjectivity. She situates each text in its historical moment and considers it in the light of contemporary anxieties, p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garson, Marjorie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Temas:
1800-1899
Aesthetics in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Subjectivity in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Literature and morals.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Subjectivité dans la littérature.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature.
Littérature et morale.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aesthetics in literature
English fiction
Literature and morals
Literature and society
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Subjectivity in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The discourse of taste in Waverley
  • A room with a viewer : the evolution of a Victorian topos
  • Resources and performance : Mansfield Park and Emma
  • The improvement of the estate : J.C. Loudon and some spaces in Dickens
  • Charlotte Brontë : sweetness and colour
  • North and South : 'stately simplicity'
  • The importance of being consistent : culture and commerce in Middlemarch.

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