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Author:

Garson, Marjorie.

Title:

Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel / Marjorie Garson.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

483 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Aesthetics, British--19th century.
Literature and morals.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Grande-Bretagne--Histoire--19e siècle.
Roman anglais--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Subjectivité dans la littérature.
Littérature et morale.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-466) and index.

Contents:

The discourse of taste in Waverley -- A room with a viewer : the evolution of a Victorian topos -- Resources and performance : Mansfield Park and Emma -- The improvement of the estate : J.C. Loudon and some spaces in Dickens -- Charlotte Brontë : sweetness and colour -- North and South : 'stately simplicity' -- The importance of being consistent : culture and commerce in Middlemarch.

ISBN:

0802091385 (bound)
9780802091383 (bound)

LCCN:

2008360724

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)