The temporality of taste in eighteenth-century British writing / James Noggle.
2012
PR448.T37 N64 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The temporality of taste in eighteenth-century British writing / James Noggle.
Author
Noggle, James.
ISBN
9780199642434
0199642435
0199642435
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
viii, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PR448.T37 N64 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9005
Summary
"Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times and places? British writers in the eighteenth century believed that it was both, and the tension between these temporal poles shaped the meaning of taste in the period and set a course for aesthetics in following centuries. Focusing on works in many genres--Alexander Pope's poems, David Hume's historiography, essays by Hannah More and Anna Barbauld, and novels by Frances Burney and William Beckford--this book sees the divided temporality of taste as an unpredictable force in British writing. The eighteenth century was the age of taste. Writers considered its intense effects on individual minds as especially characteristic of the collective present of British modernity, whilst they also recognized the disturbing tendency of taste's immediacy and its historical roles to interrupt and foreclose on each other. While noting how taste's two temporal flavors may be made to agree in order to consolidate various national, social, and gendered identities, this book also demonstrates that taste's dual temporality makes it more disruptive than scholars usually think. As such, taste models a kind of critical practice that this book itself endeavours to inherit: the insistent testing of the moment of discernment and on-going patterns of thinking and feeling against each other."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-228) and index.
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Table of Contents
Taste Against Taste in Pope's Epistle to Burlington
The Britishness of the Present at Stowe
"Almost Inseparable": Taste and History in Hume
Appearance as Experience: Three Women's Texts about Taste of the 1770s
The Power of Pure Contingency: Fashion in Smith and the Reynoldses
The Hell of Ownership: Beckford on Collecting.
The Britishness of the Present at Stowe
"Almost Inseparable": Taste and History in Hume
Appearance as Experience: Three Women's Texts about Taste of the 1770s
The Power of Pure Contingency: Fashion in Smith and the Reynoldses
The Hell of Ownership: Beckford on Collecting.