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Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life

English

By (author): Lucy Hartley

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked to emerging ideals of equality, liberty, and individuality. Examining British art and art writing by Charles Lock Eastlake, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward Poynter, William Morris, and John Addington Symonds, Hartley traces a debate about what it means to be interested in beauty and whether this preoccupation is necessary to public political life. Drawing together political history, art history, and theories of society, and supplemented by numerous illustrations, Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain offers a fresh interdisciplinary understanding of the relation of art to its publics. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 980g
  • Dimensions: 180 x 253mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781107184084

About Lucy Hartley

Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. She is the author of Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Cambridge 2001) and essays on a wide range of subjects including intellectual history and art history John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville and nineteenth-century aesthetic theories. She is the editor of The History of British Women's Writing 18301880 (2018).

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