Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by David Russell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691196923
• ISBN13: 9780691196923
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"