Republic of Taste : : Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America / / Catherine E. Kelly.
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate-and therefore a marker of breeding and station-or acquired-and thus the product of application and study-all could...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 11 color, 38 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The American Republic of Taste
- Chapter One. Learning Taste
- Chapter Two. Aesthetic Entrepreneurs
- Chapter Three. Picturing Race
- Chapter Four. Looking Past Loyalism
- Chapter Five. Waxing Political
- Chapter Six. Political Personae
- Epilogue. The Nation's Guest in the Republic of Taste
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments