Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel /
Garson, Marjorie.
Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel / Marjorie Garson. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2007. - 483 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-466) and index.
The discourse of taste in Waverley -- A room with a viewer : the evolution of a Victorian topos -- Resources and performance : Mansfield Park and Emma -- The improvement of the estate : J.C. Loudon and some spaces in Dickens -- Charlotte Bront�e : sweetness and colour -- North and South : 'stately simplicity' -- The importance of being consistent : culture and commerce in Middlemarch.
"Drawing on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Marjorie Garson discusses a number of Victorian texts that treat aesthetic refinement as an essential mark of proper middle-class subjectivity. She situates each text in its historical moment and considers it in the light of contemporary anxieties, providing insights into why certain ways of representing and endorsing tastefulness remained serviceable for many decades. In addition, this study demonstrates how the discourse of taste engenders a wider discourse about middle-class subjectivity and entitlement, national character, and racial identity in the period."--BOOK JACKET.
9780802091383 (bound) 0802091385 (bound) 9781442610811 (pbk.) 1442610816 (pbk.)
2008360724
20069047707
Aesthetics in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Subjectivity in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Literature and morals.
PR 878 .M67 / G37 2007
Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel / Marjorie Garson. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2007. - 483 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-466) and index.
The discourse of taste in Waverley -- A room with a viewer : the evolution of a Victorian topos -- Resources and performance : Mansfield Park and Emma -- The improvement of the estate : J.C. Loudon and some spaces in Dickens -- Charlotte Bront�e : sweetness and colour -- North and South : 'stately simplicity' -- The importance of being consistent : culture and commerce in Middlemarch.
"Drawing on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Marjorie Garson discusses a number of Victorian texts that treat aesthetic refinement as an essential mark of proper middle-class subjectivity. She situates each text in its historical moment and considers it in the light of contemporary anxieties, providing insights into why certain ways of representing and endorsing tastefulness remained serviceable for many decades. In addition, this study demonstrates how the discourse of taste engenders a wider discourse about middle-class subjectivity and entitlement, national character, and racial identity in the period."--BOOK JACKET.
9780802091383 (bound) 0802091385 (bound) 9781442610811 (pbk.) 1442610816 (pbk.)
2008360724
20069047707
Aesthetics in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Subjectivity in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Literature and morals.
PR 878 .M67 / G37 2007