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04233aam a2200553 i 4500 001 CC69362CF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170726s2018 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017024557 020 $a 0691161194 020 $a 9780691161198 035 $a (OCoLC)983825017 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR766.A38 $b R87 2017 082 00 $a 808.40941/09034 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $a LIT006000 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Russell, David, $d 1981 September 27- $e author. 245 10 $a Tact : $b aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain / $c David Russell. 246 30 $a Aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a x, 200 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction. An Art of Handling -- Chapter 1. "Our Debt to Lamb": The Romantic Essay and the Emergence of Tact -- Chapter 2. Aesthetic Liberalism: John Stuart Mill as Essayist -- Chapter 3. Teaching Tact: Matthew Arnold and the Function of Criticism -- Chapter 4. The Grounds of Tact: George Eliot's Rage -- Chapter 5. Relief Work: Walter Pater's Tact -- Chapter 6. Tact in Psychoanalysis: Marion Milner. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Milner, Marion, $d 1900-1998 $x Psychoanalysis. 600 17 $a Milner, Marion, $d 1900-1998. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01801283 650 0 $a English prose literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Aesthetics in literature. 650 0 $a Essay. 650 0 $a Tact. 650 0 $a Social values in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY COLLECTIONS $x Essays. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x Semiotics & Theory. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $x English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Aesthetics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00798734 650 7 $a English prose literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912357 650 7 $a Essay. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01198491 650 7 $a Psychoanalysis. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081235 650 7 $a Social values in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123442 650 7 $a Tact. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01141863 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116064050.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062922.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC69362CF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search