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Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

Af: Lindsay Wilhelm Engelsk Hardback

Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

Af: Lindsay Wilhelm Engelsk Hardback
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The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and utility and rallied under the banner of ''art for art''s sake'', are often associated with hedonism and purposelessness. However, as Lindsay Wilhelm shows, aestheticism may have been more closely related to nineteenth-century ideas of progress and scientific advancement than we think. This book illuminates an important intellectual alliance between aestheticism and evolutionism in late-nineteenth-century Britain, putting aesthetic writers such as Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater into dialogue with scientific thinkers such as Darwin and mathematician W. K. Clifford. Considering in particular how Aestheticism and scientific thinking converged on utopian ideas about beauty, Lindsay Wilhelm reveals how this evolutionary aestheticism crucially shaped Victorian debates about individual pleasure and social progress that continue to resonate today.
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The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and utility and rallied under the banner of ''art for art''s sake'', are often associated with hedonism and purposelessness. However, as Lindsay Wilhelm shows, aestheticism may have been more closely related to nineteenth-century ideas of progress and scientific advancement than we think. This book illuminates an important intellectual alliance between aestheticism and evolutionism in late-nineteenth-century Britain, putting aesthetic writers such as Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater into dialogue with scientific thinkers such as Darwin and mathematician W. K. Clifford. Considering in particular how Aestheticism and scientific thinking converged on utopian ideas about beauty, Lindsay Wilhelm reveals how this evolutionary aestheticism crucially shaped Victorian debates about individual pleasure and social progress that continue to resonate today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781009469357
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1009469355
Udg. Dato: 12 dec 2024
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 159mm
Forlag: Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato: 12 dec 2024
Forfatter(e): Lindsay Wilhelm
Forfatter(e) Lindsay Wilhelm


Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900


ISBN-13 9781009469357


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 23mm


Bredde 237mm


Højde 159mm


Udg. Dato 12 dec 2024


Oplagsdato 12 dec 2024


Forlag Cambridge University Press