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

Зміст: “...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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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / за авторством Franke, Damon, 1968-

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

Зміст: “...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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Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India / за авторством Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

Зміст: “...Film policy and film aesthetics as cultural archives -- Acts of transition: the British cinematograph films acts of 1927 and 1938 -- Empire and embarrassment: colonial forms of knowledge about cinema -- Realism and empire -- Romance and empire -- Modernism and empire -- Historical romances and modernist myths in Indian cinema....”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / за авторством Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

Зміст: “...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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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Зміст: “...Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. ...”
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