The frame of art
Subtitle: fictions of aesthetic experience, 1750-1815
By: David Marshall.
Series: Parallax, re-visions of culture and society; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature -- Aesthetics.; Criticism -- History -- 18th century.; Criticism -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "These insightful readings of Charlotte Lennox, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gotthold Lessing, Lord Kames, Henry Mackenzie, David Hume, Jane Austen, and the theorists of the picturesque trace the dramatization of aesthetic experience and the desire to design one's life as if it were a work of art - a painting, a play, or a novel. David Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of aesthetic experience; title: The problem of the picturesque; title: The impossible work of art; title: True acting and the language of real feeling; title: Fatal letters and the death of Julie; title: The business of tragedy; title: Writing masters and masculine exercises; title: Arguing by analogy.