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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James Noggle (Professor of English, Wellesley College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.442kg ISBN: 9780199642434ISBN 10: 0199642435 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 09 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Progress of Pleasure 1: Taste Against Taste in Pope's Epistle to Burlington 2: The Britishness of the Present at Stowe 3: Almost Inseparable : Taste and History in Hume 4: Appearance as Experience: Three Women's Texts about Taste of the 1770s 5: The Power of Pure Contingency: Fashion in Smith and the Reynoldses 6: The Hell of Ownership: Beckford on Collecting Epilogue: Taste and the New Formalism Notes Works CitedReviewsNoggle addresses taste in the abstract: the faculty itself as opposed to its many divergent manifestations ... he takes seriously a tradtion of aesthetic discourse from Addison and Shaftesbury onwards that explores the origin and nature of taste and seeks to identify in its working ... something more meaningful and enduring than arbitrary, subjective preference. The analysis is richly contextualized in fugitive journalism and verse Thomas Keymer, Times Literary Supplement <br> [A] wide-ranging study...Mr. Noggle's carefully researched and written study is interesting and thought-provoking. --The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer<p><br> Noggle addresses taste in the abstract: the faculty itself as opposed to its many divergent manifestations ... he takes seriously a tradtion of aesthetic discourse from Addison and Shaftesbury onwards that explores the origin and nature of taste and seeks to identify in its working ... something more meaningful and enduring than arbitrary, subjective preference. The analysis is richly contextualized in fugitive journalism and verse * Thomas Keymer, Times Literary Supplement * [A] fine contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory tout court ... subtle and characteristically intelligent. * Matthew Scott, BARS Review * Author InformationJames Noggle is professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists (Oxford, 2001), and an editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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