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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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Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption / by Francescato, Simone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of consumption as an aesthetic revolution; Collecting as a modern form of art appreciation; The problem of art consumption for John Ruskin -- Henry James's early response to collecting. …”
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