Russell David Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9780691161198

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Автор: Russell David
Название: Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780691161198
Издательство: Wiley
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Литературные эссе

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

ISBN-10: 0691161194
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 19.12.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 166 x 321 x 20
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Поставляется из: Англии
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The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling ones way with others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic.

Russell argues that the essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in this period and analyzes its techniques in the writings of Charles Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter Pater. He shows how their essays offer grounds for a claim about the relationship among art, education, and human freedom--an aesthetic liberalism--not encompassed by traditional political philosophy or in literary criticism. For these writers, tact is not about codes of politeness but about making an art of ordinary encounters with people and objects and evoking the fullest potential in each new encounter. Russell demonstrates how their essays serve as a model for a critical handling of the world that is open to surprises, and from which egalitarian demands for new relationships are made.

Offering fresh approaches to thinking about criticism, sociability, politics, and art, Tact concludes by following a legacy of essayistic tact to the practice of British psychoanalysts like D. W. Winnicott and Marion Milner.

-- Los Angeles Review of Books

Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Russell David