The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table 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 Muses' Concord : Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts in the Baroque Age / by Jensen, H. James, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Theories of knowledge and perception -- Instruction and delight in art -- Rhetorical theory and practice -- Rhetorical theory and the arts -- Passions, rhetoric, and characterization -- Rules criticism and aesthetics -- Social correctness and taste -- Continental pressures and the English national culture -- Comparisons of the arts.…”
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