The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy /

In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the...

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Auteur principal: Paulson, Ronald
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Aesthetics and deism
  • Shaftesburian disinterestedness
  • Addison's aesthetics of the novel
  • The conversation piece : politeness and subversion
  • The "Great Creation" : Fielding
  • Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne
  • The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children
  • From novel to strange to "sublime"
  • From novel to picturesque
  • The novelizing of Hogarth.