British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900
British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900
ISBN: 9781403945693
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan
出版年: 2005-11
页数: 296
定价: $ 113.00
装帧: HRD
内容简介
This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social reform movements. Following John Ruskin, who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelists' ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-sicle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.