Victorian modernism : pragmatism and the varieties of aesthetic experience
"In Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism, and loss. She examines aesthetic sites of Victorian Modernism - including workrooms, parlours, friendships, and family relations as well as printed texts and paintings - as they develop through interminglings and continuities as well as gaps and breaks. Examining the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist), and William James (philosopher and psychologist), Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations. She reveals these sentimental, domestic, and sublime works to be pragmatist explorations of aesthetic realms. This study, which leads Modernism back into the Victorian age, will be of interest to scholars of literature, art history, and philosophy."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002
xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521815819, 9780521120906, 0521815819, 052112090X
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A sweet continuance: John Ruskin's Victorian Modernism
Arrangements: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Victorian Modernism
Recondite analogies: The Victorian Modernism of Augusta Evans
Positions of repose: The Victorian Modernism of William James
Afterword