Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing

by James Noggle

Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times and places? British writers in the eighteenth century believed that it was both, and the tension between these temporal poles shaped the meaning of taste in the period and set a course for aesthetics in following centuries. Focusing on works in many genres--Alexander Pope's poems,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199642435
• ISBN13: 9780199642434
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"