{"product_id":"cultivating-victorians-9780812237542","title":"Cultivating Victorians","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some of the most innovative and exciting work on aestheticism that I have read in a long time, \u003ci\u003eCultivating Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e moves fluidly between specific circumstances of the crisis in liberalism after the Second Reform Bill and twenty-first-century critical debates about agency and liberalism. This is Victorian cultural studies at its best.\" * Kathy Alexis Psomiades, University of Notre Dame *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a volume of extraordinary intelligence, which will be eagerly read, discussed, and quarreled with by a wide range of scholars.\" * James Eli Adams, Cornell University *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a challenging volume, in the ambition of its arguments, the breadth of the material discussed, and the rnage of theoretical perspectives deployed. Its strengths like in the scope and sensitivity of its consideration of the interrelationships between aesthetic and liberal culture in the Victorian period.\" * \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e PART I. VICTORIAN LIBERAL CULTURE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Cultivating Victorians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Reflections of Agency in Ruskin's Venice\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Work of Imposture: The Victorian Public and the Tichborne Case\u003cbr\u003e PART II. AESTHETIC AGENCY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Replicating Agency: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Against Originality: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Agency\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405711286615,"sku":"9780812237542","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812237542.jpg?v=1730493364","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultivating-victorians-9780812237542","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}