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9780191738579

The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing

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    9780191738579

  • ISBN10:

    0191738573

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2012-04-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


James Noggle is professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists (Oxford, 2001), and an editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society.

Table of Contents


Introduction: The Progress of Pleasure
1. Taste Against Taste in Pope's Epistle to Burlington
2. The Britishness of the Present at Stowe
3. "Almost Inseparable": Taste and History in Hume
4. Appearance as Experience: Three Women's Texts about Taste of the 1770s
5. The Power of Pure Contingency: Fashion in Smith and the Reynoldses
6. The Hell of Ownership: Beckford on Collecting
Epilogue: Taste and the New Formalism
Notes
Works Cited

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