Tact : aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain / David Russell.
Tact : aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain / David Russell.
Tact : aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain / David Russell.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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G 2018/0019
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English
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x, 200 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction. An Art of Handling -- Chapter 1. "Our Debt to Lamb": The Romantic Essay and the Emergence of Tact -- Chapter 2. Aesthetic Liberalism: John Stuart Mill as Essayist -- Chapter 3. Teaching Tact: Matthew Arnold and the Function of Criticism -- Chapter 4. The Grounds of Tact: George Eliot's...
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2018]
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"The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with others in...
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Tact : aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain / David Russell.
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Aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/0019
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74VKVGAeKJAl
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0691161194 hardcover
9780691161198 hardcover
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808.4094109034
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991024154718302626
