TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garson,Marjorie
TI  - Moral taste: aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel 
SN  - 9780802091383 (bound)
AV  - PR 878 .M67 G37 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Aesthetics in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - English fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Subjectivity in literature
KW  - Power (Social sciences) in literature
KW  - Literature and morals
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -