The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy by Ronald Paulson (

Description: The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange by Ronald Paulson Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Originally published in 1995. In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange, Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty—worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesburys "disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addisons category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange.Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers. Author Biography Ronald Paulson is a professor of English and art history at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700–1820; Book and Painting: Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible; Representations of Revolution, 1789–1820; and Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable. Table of Contents PrefaceChapter 1. Aesthetics and Deism Chapter 2. Shaftesburian Disinterestedness Chapter 3. Addisons Aesthetics of the Novel Chapter 4. The Conversation Piece: Politeness and Subversion Chapter 5. The "Great Creation": Fielding Chapter 6. Aesthetics and Erotics: Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne Chapter 7. The Strange, Trivial, and Infantile: Books for Children Chapter 8. From Novel co Strange to "Sublime" Chapter 9. From Novel to Picturesque Chapter 10. The Novelizing of Hogarth Illustrations NotesAckowledgmentsIndex Review This is a remarkable and important book, one that scholars will be learning from for a long time and that critics and theorists of the arts will want to ponder for its interventions into the basic questions of aesthetics, ideology, and the relation of artistic theory and practice. It will certainly spark a much-needed debate in the complacent circles of British art history, one that will fruitfully cut across the familiar battle lines between left and right, theorists and historians, scholars and critics..—W. J. T. Mitchell, Editor, Critical Inquiry Long Description In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange , Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beautyworship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesburys ""disinterestedness,"" replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addisons category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange.Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers. Review Text ""This is a remarkable and important book, one that scholars will be learning from for a long time and that critics and theorists of the arts will want to ponder for its interventions into the basic questions of aesthetics, ideology, and the relation of artistic theory and practice. It will certainly spark a much-needed debate in the complacent circles of British art history, one that will fruitfully cut across the familiar battle lines between left and right, theorists and historians, scholars and critics.."" Review Quote "This is a remarkable and important book, one that scholars will be learning from for a long time and that critics and theorists of the arts will want to ponder for its interventions into the basic questions of aesthetics, ideology, and the relation of artistic theory and practice. It will certainly spark a much-needed debate in the complacent circles of British art history, one that will fruitfully cut across the familiar battle lines between left and right, theorists and historians, scholars and critics.." Details ISBN1421430568 Author Ronald Paulson Pages 394 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-10 1421430568 ISBN-13 9781421430560 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle Aesthetics and Heterodoxy Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 701.170941 Illustrations No Short Title The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange Language English Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-01-26 NZ Release Date 2020-01-26 US Release Date 2020-01-26 UK Release Date 2020-01-26 Alternative 9780801851711 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2019-12-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161820338;

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