More Shopping OptionsOver the last 20 years, critics and historians of the late eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation. These essays by twelve internationally known scholars return"Taste" to a central position in the discussion of nation, culture and aesthetics in the period.
Peter de Bolla is Lecturer in the English Faculty and Fellow of King's College, and Nigle Leask is Lecturer in the English Faculty and Fellow of Queen's College, both at Cambridge. David Simpson is Professor and G.B. Needham Fellow, English Department, University of California, Davis.
Introduction * 'Ah, the Simple Life!': Gainsborough's Cottage * Doors and the Cult of Sentimental Domesticity--A.Bermingham * Love and Madness: Sentimental Narratives and the Spectacle of Suffering in Late Eighteenth-Century Romance--J.Brewer * Utopian Imaginations: Reconfiguring Commerce and Virtue in the Long 18th Century--G.Claeys * Structures of Kinship in David's 'Intervention of the Sabine Women'--T.J.Clark * Against the Grain of Public Virtue: Aesthetic Experiment and Religious Dissent in the Art of Chardin and the Fragonard--T.Crow * Landscape and Liberty: Turner, Byron and Nottingham--S.Daniels * The Time of Law: Eighteenth-Century Speculations--P.de Bolla * Gardens, Landscapes, Organic Form--F. Ferguson * Hannah More: Feminism and Conservative Politics--H.Guest * Burns, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Vernacular Poetry in the 1790s--N.Leask * Wordsworth and Empire - Just Joking--D. Simpson * Thomas Heaphy's Watercolour Nasties--D.Solkin * Index
