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Auteur(s) : Russell, David (1981-....)
Titre(s) : Tact [Texte imprimé] : aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain / David Russell
Publication : Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton university press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-200 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index
"The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period
when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population
growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with
people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with
others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David Russell traces how the essay
genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic. Russell argues that
the essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in this period and
analyzes its techniques in the writings of Charles Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew
Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter Pater. He shows how their essays offer grounds for
a claim about the relationship among art, education, and human freedom--an "aesthetic
liberalism"--not encompassed by traditional political philosophy or in literary criticism.
For these writers, tact is not about codes of politeness but about making an art of
ordinary encounters with people and objects and evoking the fullest potential in each
new encounter. Russell demonstrates how their essays serve as a model for a critical
handling of the world that is open to surprises, and from which egalitarian demands
for new relationships are made. Offering fresh approaches to thinking about criticism,
sociability, politics, and art, Tact concludes by following a legacy of essayistic
tact to the practice of British psychoanalysts like D.W. Winnicott and Marion Milner."
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century
Britain
Sujet(s) : Milner, Marion (1900-1998)
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle
Littérature -- Esthétique
Esthétique -- Dans la littérature
Valeurs sociales -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691161198. - ISBN 0691161194
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455239359
Notice n° :
FRBNF45523935
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Table des matières : Introduction : An Art of Handling ; "Our Debt to Lamb" : The Romantic Essay and
the Emergence of Tact ; Aesthetic Liberalism : John Stuart Mill as Essayist ; Teaching
Tact : Matthew Arnold and the Function of Criticism ; The Grounds of Tact : George
Eliot's Rage ; Relief Work : Walter Pater's Tact ; Tact in Psychoanalysis : Marion
Milner.