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Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jessica R. Feldman
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:276 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary theory
Literary studies - general |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521120906
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| Classifications | Dewey:809.9112 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
1 October 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. She examines aesthetic sites of Victorian Modernism - including workrooms, parlours, friendships, and family relations as well as printed texts and paintings - as they develop through interminglings and continuities as well as gaps and breaks. Examining the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist) and William James (philosopher and psychologist), Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations. She reveals these sentimental, domestic and sublime works to be pragmatist explorations of aesthetic realms. This study, which leads Modernism back into the Victorian age, will be of interest to scholars of literature, art history and philosophy.
Reviews"[T]his is a thought-provoking study. Highly recommended." Choice "Deft and winning." Studies in English Literature
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