Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820

by Ronald Paulson

Book Overview

Paulson shows how 18th-century English poets and artists confronted the decline of High Renaissance ideals in literary theory and aesthetics. The book is less a single extended argument, though, than a collection of brilliant insights and interpretations: Pope as Ovidian poet; Joseph Wright as Shandyan artist. Especially stimulating are the readings of Hogarth, Wright, Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Constable that comprise the second half of the book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813514398
• ISBN13: 9780813514390
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.