Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty

by Robert W. Jones

Beauty is one of the most important and intriguing ideas in eighteenth-century culture. In Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain Robert Jones provides a fresh understanding of how emergent critical discourses negotiated with earlier accounts of taste and beauty in order to redefine culture in line with the polite virtues of the urban middle classes. Crucially, the ability to form opinions on questions of beauty, and the capacity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521593263
• ISBN13: 9780521593267
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"