Tact : aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain /

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Russell, David, 1981 September 27- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Milner, Marion, > 1900-1998 > Psychoanalysis.
Milner, Marion, > 1900-1998
1800-1899
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Essay.
Tact.
Social values in literature.
Prose anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
Essai (Genre littéraire)
Valeurs sociales dans la littérature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
HISTORY > Social History.
Aesthetics in literature
English prose literature
Essay
Psychoanalysis
Social values in literature
Tact
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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