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Britain's Chinese eye: literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain
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Imagination under pressure, 1789 - 1832: aesthetics, politics, and utility
In: Cambridge studies in Romanticism 39
The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
In: Cultural sociology: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 307-310
ISSN: 1749-9755
Victorian visions of war & peace: aesthetics, sovereignty & violence in the British Empire, c.1851-1900
A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period. In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became increasingly defined by the processes and products of image-making. Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how artists and photographers operating "in the field" helped to define British visions of war and peace. The Victorians increasingly turned to visual spectacle to help them compose imperial sovereignty. The British Empire was thus rendered into a spectacle of "peace," from world's fairs to staged diplomatic rituals. Yet this occurred against a backdrop of incessant colonial war-campaigns which, far from being ignored, were in fact unprecedentedly visible within the cultural forms of Victorian society. Visual media thus shaped the contours of imperial statecraft and established many of the aesthetic and ethical frames within which the colonial violence was confronted
The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
In: Cultural sociology: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 428-430
ISSN: 1749-9755
British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870-1900: beauty for the people
In: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Kunst, Wahrheit und Gefühl: Schelling, Hegel und die Ästhetik des angelsächsischen Idealismus
In: Alber Philosophie
The aesthetic and critical theories of John Ruskin
Graveyard poetry: religion, aesthetics and the mid-eighteenth-century poetic condition
In: British literature in context in the long eighteenth century