Beauty is one of the most important and intriguing ideas in
eighteenth-century culture. In Gender and the Formation of Taste in
Eighteenth-Century Britain Robert Jones provides a fresh
understanding of how emergent critical discourses negotiated with
earlier accounts of taste and beauty in order to redefine culture
in line with the polite virtues of the urban middle classes.
Crucially, the ability to form opinions on questions of beauty, and
the capacity to enter into debates on its nature, was thought to
characterise those able to participate in cultural discourse.
Furthermore, the term 'beauty' was frequently invoked, in various
and contradictory ways, to determine acceptable behaviour for
women. In his book, Jones discusses a wide range of material,
including philosophical texts by William Hogarth and Edmund Burke
and Joshua Reynolds, novels by Charlotte Lennox and Sarah Scott,
and the many representations of the celebrated beauty Elizabeth
Gunning.
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