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Tact : Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain /

"The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about,...

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Autor principal: Russell, David, 1981 September 27- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. An Art of Handling
  • Chapter 1. "Our Debt to Lamb": The Romantic Essay and the Emergence of Tact
  • Chapter 2. Aesthetic Liberalism: John Stuart Mill as Essayist
  • Chapter 3. Teaching Tact: Matthew Arnold and the Function of Criticism
  • Chapter 4. The Grounds of Tact: George Eliot's Rage
  • Chapter 5. Relief Work: Walter Pater's Tact
  • Chapter 6. Tact in Psychoanalysis: Marion Milner.