Moral Taste : Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel /
"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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.