The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy

The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange Aesthetics and Heterodoxy

Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth 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 onl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paulson, Ronald, 1930-2024 (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects:
1700-1799
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siecle.
Art et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siecle.
Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Esthetique > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siecle.
Esthetica.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Literature and society.
Fiction > Technique.
English fiction.
Art and literature.
Aesthetics, British.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Aesthetics, British > 18th century.
Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Visual arts > Aesthetics
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434185606719
Table of Contents:
  • Aesthetics and deism
  • Shaftesburian disinterestedness
  • Addison's aesthetics of the novel
  • The conversation piece : politeness and subversion
  • The "Great Creation" : Fielding
  • Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne
  • The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children
  • From novel to strange to "sublime"
  • From novel to picturesque
  • The novelizing of Hogarth.

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