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You will appreciate this distinguished analysis of the 20th-century definition of a "man of taste." The Man of Taste is a poem about the morality involved in being tasteful. Excerpt: Criticks indeed are valuable men, But hyper-criticks are as good agen. Tho' Blackmore's works my soul with raptures fill, With notes by Bently they'd be better still..."
What could Reginald Marne - sophisticated, debonaire, cultured, wealthy ... what should Reginald do when he has Willie, a cute kid, dumped on him? And what about Willie, who comes from such a different world, but is hardly a kid at seventeen? And now Reggie and Willie have fallen in love with each other but can't say so. Throw in Winston, the butler, who collects dollies ... and you have one of the funniest gay love stories of this or any year.
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi Pdf
It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. Gikandi focuses on the ways that the enslavement of Africans and the profits derived from this exploitation enabled the moment of taste in European--mainly British--life, leading to a transformation of bourgeois ideas regarding freedom and selfhood. He explores how these connections played out in the immense fortunes made in the West Indies sugar colonies, supporting the lavish lives of English barons and altering the ideals that defined middle-class subjects. Discussing how the ownership of slaves turned the American planter class into a new aristocracy, Gikandi engages with the slaves' own response to the strange interplay of modern notions of freedom and the realities of bondage, and he emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural processes developed by slaves to create spaces of freedom outside the regimen of enforced labor and truncated leisure. Through a close look at the eighteenth century's many remarkable documents and artworks, Slavery and the Culture of Taste sets forth the tensions and contradictions entangling a brutal practice and the distinctions of civility.
The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing by James Noggle Pdf
This book discusses the disruptive power of the concept of taste in the works of a number of important British writers, including poets such as Alexander Pope and Joseph Warton, philosophical historians such as David Hume and Anna Barbauld, and novelists such as Frances Burney and William Beckford.
John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare's career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor market, and conservative patronage. Yet Clare was not a passive victim. This study explores the sources of the 'poor Clare' tradition, and recovers Clare's agency, revealing a writer fully engaged in his own professional life and in the social and political questions of the day.
John Clare Society Journal, 27 (2008) by Scott McEathron,Paul Farley,Scott Hess,Tom Bates,Sarah Weiger,Simon Kovesi ,Valerie Pedlar,Robert Heyes Pdf
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
The Crisis of Courtesy explores the metamorphosis of British courtesy-literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It shows how the preoccupation with conduct provided the subject-matter of such diverse literary forms as poetry, the essay and the novel.
