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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Garson, Marjorie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
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.