Moral Taste : : Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / / Marjorie Garson.
One of the particular concerns of the Victorians was the notion of ?taste? and the idea that good taste in any field ? clothing, décor, landscape, music, art, even food ? meant good taste in all, and that tastefulness was a reliable sign of moral sensitivity, indeed of national, even racial, quality...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Discourse of Taste in Waverley
- 2. A Room with a Viewer: The Evolution of a Victorian Topos
- 3. Resources and Performance: Mansfield Park and Emma
- 4. The Improvement of the Estate: J.C. Loudon and Some Spaces in Dickens
- 5. Charlotte Brontë: Sweetness and Colour
- 6 North and South: 'Stately Simplicity'
- 7. The Importance of Being Consistent: Culture and Commerce in Middlemarch
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index