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- catalog abstract ""In this detailed reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism, David Wayne Thomas challenges current critical assumptions concerning modern liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Through meticulous examinations of literature, visual arts, popular culture, and politics, Cultivating Victorians shows how a mid-Victorian liberal discourse of individual "many-sidedness"--Understood as a cultivated disposition toward self-criticism and open-mindedness - was taken up by artists and writers as they claimed for art a self-reflecting agency at the core of the liberal ideal. Thomas makes plain, as well, the ongoing but often repressed stake of latter-day critics in the aesthetics of many-sidedness." "As Thomas shows, an increasingly dominant mid-Victorian liberal culture employed its rhetoric of cultivation in projects as varied as aesthetic appreciation, self-improvement, and social amelioration. By looking to topics across both elite and popular culture. Thomas demonstrates how this liberal culture had to take shape in competition with other dimensions of Victorian public life. Thus several uncommon but illuminating contexts come under inspection here: the bizarre sensation of the Tichborne Claimant, a low-born imposter claiming a noble inheritance; the reportage on life-scale historical city replicas fashioned for temporary public exhibitions in the 1880s; and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's practice of producing and reproducing his artwork for a newly constituted consumer market. Thomas also reads extensively in notable Victorian intellectuals such as George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13107153.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""In this detailed reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism, David Wayne Thomas challenges current critical assumptions concerning modern liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Through meticulous examinations of literature, visual arts, popular culture, and politics, Cultivating Victorians shows how a mid-Victorian liberal discourse of individual "many-sidedness"--Understood as a cultivated disposition toward self-criticism and open-mindedness - was taken up by artists and writers as they claimed for art a self-reflecting agency at the core of the liberal ideal. Thomas makes plain, as well, the ongoing but often repressed stake of latter-day critics in the aesthetics of many-sidedness." "As Thomas shows, an increasingly dominant mid-Victorian liberal culture employed its rhetoric of cultivation in projects as varied as aesthetic appreciation, self-improvement, and social amelioration. By looking to topics across both elite and popular culture. Thomas demonstrates how this liberal culture had to take shape in competition with other dimensions of Victorian public life. Thus several uncommon but illuminating contexts come under inspection here: the bizarre sensation of the Tichborne Claimant, a low-born imposter claiming a noble inheritance; the reportage on life-scale historical city replicas fashioned for temporary public exhibitions in the 1880s; and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's practice of producing and reproducing his artwork for a newly constituted consumer market. Thomas also reads extensively in notable Victorian intellectuals such as George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Cultivating Victorians -- Reflections of agency in Ruskin's Venice -- The work of imposture: the Victorian public and the Tichborne case -- Replicating agency: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester -- Against originality: Oscar Wilde's aesthetic agency.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 229 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812237544 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/358 22".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, British 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Culture Political aspects Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Culture Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Liberalism Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Liberalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR468.L52 T48 2004".
- catalog subject "Politics and culture Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Cultivating Victorians -- Reflections of agency in Ruskin's Venice -- The work of imposture: the Victorian public and the Tichborne case -- Replicating agency: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester -- Against originality: Oscar Wilde's aesthetic agency.".
- catalog title "Cultivating Victorians : liberal culture and the aesthetic / David Wayne Thomas.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".