The temporality of taste in eighteenth-century British writing:
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Main Author: Noggle, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2012
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-228) and index
This text discusses the disruptive power of the concept of taste in the works of a number of important British writers, including poets such as Alexander Pope and Joseph Warton, philosophical historians such as David Hume and Anna Barbauld, and novelists such as Frances Burney and William Beckford
Taste Against Taste in Pope's Epistle to Burlington -- The Britishness of the Present at Stowe -- "Almost Inseparable": Taste and History in Hume -- Appearance as Experience: Three Women's Texts about Taste of the 1770s -- The Power of Pure Contingency: Fashion in Smith and the Reynoldses -- The Hell of Ownership: Beckford on Collecting
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 234 p.)
ISBN:0191635669
9780191635663

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