Democratising beauty in nineteenth-century Britain : art and the politics of public life /

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political ref...

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Main Author: Hartley, Lucy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 106
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