The beautiful, novel, and strange : aesthetics and heterodoxy

著者

• Paulson, Ronald Howard

書誌事項

The beautiful, novel, and strange : aesthetics and heterodoxy

Ronald Paulson

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This work seeks to fill 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 18th 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.

目次

Preface Chapter 1. Aesthetics and Deism Chapter 2. Shaftesburian Disinterestedness Chapter 3. Addison's Aesthetics of the Novel Chapter 4. The Conversation Piece: Politeness and Subversion Chapter 5. The "Great Creation": Fielding Chapter 6. Aesthetics and Erotics: Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne Chapter 7. The Strange, Trivial, and Infantile: Books for Children Chapter 8. From Novel co Strange to "Sublime" Chapter 9. From Novel to Picturesque Chapter 10. The Novelizing of Hogarth Illustrations Notes Ackowledgments Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27049230
• ISBN:
  • 0801851718
• LCCN: 95018983
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Baltimore
• ページ数/冊数: xix, 369 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PR858.A74
  • DC20 : 700/.94109033
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Aesthetics, British -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Fiction -- Technique