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"One of the brilliances of this book is to suggest that tact as a mode of thinking can be linked to a type of independence, and imaginative intelligence. . . . [It is] at once provocative and generously open-ended, raising questions about what is at stake in any attempt to read and interpret."---Kirsty Martin, Times Literary Supplement
"Learned, beautifully written, and crafted with evident care, Tact is one of those works that, from cover to content, exemplifies the ethos that is its subject." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
"Russell’sTact is a brilliant and frequently moving study, arguing passionately for the ways in which a greater openness may lead us into richer engagements with our world and doing this by lifting off the film of familiarity that so often obscures from us the canonical writers of the nineteenth century."---Uttara Natarajan, Review in English Studies
"[A] joyful and stylish book."---Diane Josefowicz, Victorian Web

Tact

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 19 November 2019
      ISBN-13 9780691196923
      978-0691196923
      ISBN-10 0691196923
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      Literary theory Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "One of the brilliances of this book is to suggest that tact as a mode of thinking can be linked to a type of independence, and imaginative intelligence. . . . [It is] at once provocative and generously open-ended, raising questions about what is at stake in any attempt to read and interpret."---Kirsty Martin, Times Literary Supplement
      "Learned, beautifully written, and crafted with evident care, Tact is one of those works that, from cover to content, exemplifies the ethos that is its subject." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
      "Russell’sTact is a brilliant and frequently moving study, arguing passionately for the ways in which a greater openness may lead us into richer engagements with our world and doing this by lifting off the film of familiarity that so often obscures from us the canonical writers of the nineteenth century."---Uttara Natarajan, Review in English Studies
      "[A] joyful and stylish book."---Diane Josefowicz, Victorian Web

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