Add to ORKGThis dissertation explores influential art critics, poets and novelists who—contra Oscar Wilde’s famous claim that “all art is quite useless”—affirmed the “use” of art to human care and cultivation. By turning art and other artifacts into things to be acquired and arranged, mid-Victorian collectors transformed “Arts and Crafts” into a fashionable cult of the objet d’art. For instance, Charles Eastlake’s decorating manual, Hints on Household Taste (1868), beckoned readers to create the private museum as a self-contained “thing of beauty.” The writers I discuss rejected this fantasy of autonomous art and drew on John Ruskin’s legacy to develop a social understanding of the aesthetic object. By the nineteenth century, the meanings of the “cura...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
This dissertation reconsiders the social forces and intellectual discourses to which British Aesthet...
The thesis argues that, from the early nineteenth century onwards, primarily in response to the ever...
This dissertation explores influential art critics, poets and novelists who—contra Oscar Wilde’s fam...
Oscar Wilde was a fascinating literary figure who took center stage in England near the end of the n...
Oscar Wilde was a fascinating literary figure who took center stage in England near the end of the n...
In the late 1870's English society witnessed the rise of the aesthetic movement, a phenomenon which ...
203 pagesThis dissertation brings together strands of literary formalism and historical work on coll...
This dissertation explores how Victorian concepts of subject formation resulted in the concomitant c...
Revising British Aestheticism: Critics, Audiences, and the Problem of Aesthetic Education focuses on...
This dissertation explores how Victorian concepts of subject formation resulted in the concomitant c...
The starting point for my analysis of nineteenth-century criticism is the recognition that the word ...
This project explores Oscar Wilde's work on painting, the art of dress, and home decor, referred to...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
This dissertation reconsiders the social forces and intellectual discourses to which British Aesthet...
The thesis argues that, from the early nineteenth century onwards, primarily in response to the ever...
This dissertation explores influential art critics, poets and novelists who—contra Oscar Wilde’s fam...
Oscar Wilde was a fascinating literary figure who took center stage in England near the end of the n...
Oscar Wilde was a fascinating literary figure who took center stage in England near the end of the n...
In the late 1870's English society witnessed the rise of the aesthetic movement, a phenomenon which ...
203 pagesThis dissertation brings together strands of literary formalism and historical work on coll...
This dissertation explores how Victorian concepts of subject formation resulted in the concomitant c...
Revising British Aestheticism: Critics, Audiences, and the Problem of Aesthetic Education focuses on...
This dissertation explores how Victorian concepts of subject formation resulted in the concomitant c...
The starting point for my analysis of nineteenth-century criticism is the recognition that the word ...
This project explores Oscar Wilde's work on painting, the art of dress, and home decor, referred to...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
This dissertation reconsiders the social forces and intellectual discourses to which British Aesthet...
The thesis argues that, from the early nineteenth century onwards, primarily in response to the ever...