British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870-1900 : beauty for the people

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    • Maltz, Diana

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British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870-1900 : beauty for the people

Diana Maltz

(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index

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内容説明

This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.

目次

List of Figures Acknowledgements What is Missionary Aestheticism? An Introduction The Social Strands of Aestheticism Octavia Hill and the Aesthetics of Victorian Tenement Reform 'In ample halls adorned with mysterious things aesthetic': Toynbee Hall as Aesthetic Haven The Museum Opening Debate and the Combative Discourses of Sabbatarianism and Missionary Aestheticism 'Art is the Handmaid of Religion': Slum Ritualism as Missionary Aestheticism George Gissing's Hopes and Fears for a Popular Aestheticism Conclusion: Missionary Aestheticism as Emancipatory Aesthetics? Notes Works Cited: Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index

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