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British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900
Beauty for the People
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This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- What is Missionary Aestheticism? An Introduction
- 1 The Social Strands of Aestheticism
- 2 Octavia Hill and the Aesthetics of Victorian Tenement Reform
- 3 'In ample halls adorned with mysterious things aesthetic': Toynbee Hall as Aesthetic Haven
- 4 The Museum Opening Debate and the Combative Discourses of Sabbatarianism and Missionary Aestheticism
- 5 'Art is the Handmaid of Religion': Slum Ritualism as Missionary Aestheticism
- 6 George Gissing's Hopes and Fears for a Popular British Aestheticism
- Conclusion: Missionary Aestheticism as Emancipatory Aesthetics?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index