The Vulgarization of Art The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy |
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| Author:
| Dowling, Linda |
| Series title: | Victorian Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-1634-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $59.50USD $59.50 |
Book Description:
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In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.
In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.