Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic

by David Wayne Thomas

In this provocative and historically detailed reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism, David Wayne Thomas challenges current critical assumptions concerning modern liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Through meticulous examinations of literature, visual arts, popular culture, and politics, Cultivating Victorians shows how a mid-Victorian liberal discourse of individual "many-sidedness"--understood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237544
• ISBN13: 9780812237542
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"