The temporality of taste in eighteenth-century British writing
Title:
The temporality of taste in eighteenth-century British writing
Author:
Noggle, James.
ISBN:
9780191635663
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 234 p.)
Contents:
Taste Against Taste in Pope's Epistle to Burlington -- The Britishness of the Present at Stowe -- "Almost Inseparable": Taste and History in Hume -- Appearance as Experience: Three Women's Texts about Taste of the 1770s -- The Power of Pure Contingency: Fashion in Smith and the Reynoldses -- The Hell of Ownership: Beckford on Collecting.
Abstract:
This text discusses the disruptive power of the concept of taste in the works of a number of important British writers, including poets such as Alexander Pope and Joseph Warton, philosophical historians such as David Hume and Anna Barbauld, and novelists such as Frances Burney and William Beckford.
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