British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900 - Beauty for the People (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	D. Maltz
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-4569-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-4039-4569-1
Barcode:	9781403945693

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