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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy /
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London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Dickens, Thackeray, and "the language of radicalism" -- The aesthetics and politics of caricature : Bleak house, Little Dorrit, and Vanity fair in relation to "radical expression" -- Re-visioning the city : the making of an urban aesthetic from Hogarth to the stereoscope -- Novelizing the city : Bleak house, Vanity fair, and the hybridizing challenge -- Radical culture, the city, and the problem of selfhood : Great expectations and Pendennis -- Working with fragments : Our mutual friend as a reflection on the popular aesthetic.…”
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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /
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Phantom Formations : Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" /
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…1. Aesthetic Ideology -- 2. The Phantom Bildungsroman -- 3. …”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 /
Published 2018Subjects: “…Aesthetics, German 20th century. nli 152005…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Victorian Noon : English Literature in 1850 /
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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 /
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions -- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism -- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? …”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting : A New Translation with Critical Commentary /
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