Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel
"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."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
483 pages ; 24 cm
9780802091383, 9781442610811, 0802091385, 1442610816
71540266
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