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The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange - Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (Paperback)
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The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange - Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (Paperback)
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Originally published in 1995. In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange,
Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point
of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off
not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of
religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the
founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and
punishments with beauty-worship of God, with a taste for a work of
art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's
"disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an
aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based
on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson
shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a
middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting
Joseph Addison's category (in the Spectator) of the Novel,
Uncommon, and Strange. Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had
strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured
both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and
later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and
literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not
only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson
explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence
Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the
practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers.
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