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The Birth of Aesthetic Experience in Mid|Victorian Literature


The Birth of Aesthetic Experience in Mid-Victorian Literature

Two things make this self-reflexive aesthetic unique. The first is the very ordinary, intimate contexts in which aesthetic experience begins to takes place - ...

Aestheticism | British Literature Wiki - WordPress at UD |

The Aesthetic movement denounced the sober morality and middle-class values that characterized the Victorian Age and embraced beauty as the chief pursuit of ...

An introduction to the Aesthetic Movement - V&A

The Aesthetic Movement in Britain (1860 – 1900) aimed to escape the ugliness and materialism of the Industrial Age, by focusing instead on producing art that ...

The Aesthetic Movement Overview - The Art Story

Distinct from the Victorian preference for fussy decor, curvaceous forms, and abundant detail, Aesthetic art is characterized by subdued colors, ...

The Aesthetic Movement and its influence on literature - Fiveable

The Aesthetic Movement revolutionized late Victorian art and literature. It championed beauty and artistic value over moral themes, ...

Aestheticism | Oscar Wilde, Decadence & Symbolism - Britannica

Aestheticism, late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, ...

The Aesthetic Movement - Smarthistory

The Aesthetic Movement provided a challenge to the Victorian public when it declared that art was divorced from any moral or narrative content. In an era when ...

Aestheticism | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core

As a keyword, aestheticism characterizes the apparent preoccupation that groups of late Victorians (roughly from the 1870–1900 era) had with the ...

Aesthetic Movement - Buffalo Architecture and History

The Aesthetic Movement is a loosely defined movement in literature, fine art, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, stained glass, textiles, and wallpapers in later ...

Aesthetic Experience - (British Literature II) - Fiveable

The relationship between aesthetic experience and the sublime in Wordsworth's poetry is characterized by moments where beauty evokes both admiration and fear.

Aesthetic Movement | History, Art & Literature - Study.com

Aestheticism was a European movement that spanned the period from the mid-to-late 19th century. It was a reaction to philosophies such as utilitarianism.

The Aesthetic Experience across Three Centuries

She admits that 'our eclectic age is less concerned to formulate strictures than the Victorian age', and that 'it seems that in the general ...

Victorian | Aesthetics Wiki - Fandom

When it comes to architecture and design, the Victorian era is best known as an era of revivalism. The main styles were Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, the ...

An Early Victorian Prologue to the Aesthetic Movement - jstor

the areas of experience that can be treated in literature, a sense of the alienation of art and the artist from a utilitarian public, and poetry's power to ...

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary ...

Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach ...

Aesthetics | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core

But we misunderstand the history of aesthetic thought if we disregard its intellectual life in British nineteenth century. Two intersecting ...

Jessica Feldman, Victorian Modernism. Pragmatism and the Varieties

He was interested in the same topics as they were and especially, in domesticity and its relation to aesthetic experience, which he explored in his essay “On a ...

Middleness: Provincial Fiction and the Aesthetics of Dull Life

This article argues that the rise of the provincial novel in Britain during the 1860s set loose a radically democratizing aesthetic of everyday ...

Burdett | Introduction: Psychology/Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century

The most cursory survey of the psychological literature of the nineteenth century suggests that, if true, this would not be for want of effort.

The Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wilde's ...

The explosion of aesthetic philosophy in fin-de-siècle English society, as exemplified by Oscar Wilde, was not confined to merely art, however. Rather, the ...