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British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900 Beauty for the People

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ISBN-10: 0230504051

ISBN-13: 9780230504059

Edition: 2006

Authors: D. Maltz

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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-siecle" artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.
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List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/22/2005
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 290
Language: English