Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840

Thinking the Republic of Taste

Kenneth A. Loparo, N. Leask, D. Simpson, Kenneth A. Loparo, N. Leask, D. Simpson, Peter de Bolla

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9781403920478
• eBook ISBN: 9780230502048
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Literature

Over the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation. These essays by twelve internationally known scholars return 'Taste' to a central position in the discussion of nation, culture and aesthetics in the period.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Reforming Landscape: Turner and Nottingham
• 2 The Simple Life: Cottages and Gainsborough’s Cottage Doors
• 3 The Other Half of the Landscape: Thomas Heaphy’s Watercolour Nasties
• 4 Chardin at the Edge of Belief: Overlooked Issues of Religion and Dissent in Eighteenth-Century French Painting
• 5 The Sabine Women and Lévi-Strauss
• 6 ‘Love and Madness’: Sentimental Narratives and the Spectacle of Suffering in Late-Eighteenth-Century Romance
• 7 ‘A Submission, Sir!’ Who has the Right to Person in Eighteenth-Century Britain?
• 8 Suspicious Minds: Spies and Surveillance in Charlotte Smith’s Novels of the 1790s
• 9 Wordsworth and Empire – Just Joking
• 10 Burns, Wordsworth and the Politics of Vernacular Poetry
• 11 Organic Form and its Consequences
• Index