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The Vulgarization of Art - The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy (Hardcover)
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The Vulgarization of Art - The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
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In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement,
Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art
writing as Ruskin's Stones of Venice or Morris's Lectures on Art or
Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the
larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition. Tracing
the genealogy of Victorian Aestheticism back to the first great
crisis of the Whig polity in the earlier eighteenth century,
Dowling locates the source of the Victorians' utopian hopes for art
in the "moral sense" theory of Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of
Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury's theory of a universal moral sense,
argues The Vulgarization of Art, became the transcendental basis
for the new Whig polity that proposed itself as an alternative to
older theories of natural law and divine right. It would then
sustain the Victorians' hope that their own nightmare landscape of
commercial modernity and mass taste might be transformed by a
universal pleasure in art and beauty. The Vulgarization of Art goes
on to explore the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement
when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's
assumption of "aristocratic soul" and the Victorian ideal of
"aesthetic democracy" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers
as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation
through the aesthetic sense.
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