![]() | Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain Subjects: English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Aesthetics in literature; Essay; Tact; Social values in literature; Milner Marion 1900–1998 -- Psychoanalysis; The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic. David Russell is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and a tutorial fellow of Corpus Christi College. |
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