British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900 : Beauty for the People Paperback / softback
by D. Maltz
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series
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This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements.
Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival.
Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.
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- Publication Date:01/01/2006
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:290 pages, X, 290 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2006
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- ISBN:9781349523146
