British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870-1900 :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
beauty for the people /
First Statement of Responsibility
Diana Maltz.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 290 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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What is missionary aestheticism? : an introduction -- The social strands of aestheticism -- Octavia Hill and the aesthetics of Victorian tenement reform -- 'In ample halls adorned with mysterious things aesthetic' : Toynbee Hall as aesthetic haven -- The museum opening debate and the combative discourses of Sabbatarianism and missionary aestheticism -- 'Art is the handmaid of religion' : slum ritualism as missionary aestheticism -- George Gissing's hopes and fears for a popular British aestheticism -- Conclusion : missionary aestheticism as emancipatory aesthetics?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People explores the ways in which middle-class people sought to bring gifts of beauty to the slums of London. Diana Maltz throws fresh light on British Aestheticism as a social movement, on bourgeois myths and insights into tenement life, and on late Victorian cultural philanthropy in practice. Maltz offers a stimulating reinterpretation of the social reformers Octavia Hill, Samuel Barnett, and Henrietta Barnett, and her chapters examine fictional treatments of 'missionary aestheticism' by Walter Peter, George Gissing, and Arthur Morrison as well as visual satires by cartoonists Charles Keene and George Du Maurier."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Aesthetic movement (Art)-- Great Britain.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Aesthetics, British-- 19th century.
Art and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
City and town life-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Poor in literature.
Social problems-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Urban poor-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Working class-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Working class-- Great Britain-- Intellectual life.