Professions of Taste by Jonathan Freedman
This volume discusses Henry James and the tradition of late 19th century British aestheticism and investigates the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fed into Anglo-American modernism.
"Our understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism takes a leap forward with Freedman's Professions of Taste, an ambitiously theorized, handsomely written, and enlightening book"—Studies in English Literature
"Professions of Taste is a work that Henry James might have read with pleasure. It is beautifully written, crafted in the highest spirit of critical enterprise."—American Literature
"An important and innovative book. . . . Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer geneaology of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role."—Henry James Review
"This well-written study sheds much new light on the sphere of experience and expertise, 'the aesthetic,' that was created in the latter half of the nineteenth century."—Virginia Quarterly Review
"Professions of Taste is a work that Henry James might have read with pleasure. It is beautifully written, crafted in the highest spirit of critical enterprise."—American Literature
"An important and innovative book. . . . Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer geneaology of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role."—Henry James Review
"This well-written study sheds much new light on the sphere of experience and expertise, 'the aesthetic,' that was created in the latter half of the nineteenth century."—Virginia Quarterly Review
Jonathan Freedman is a University of Michigan professor of English and American studies. He is the author of The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America and Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804721783 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804721785 |
| Title | Professions of Taste |
| Author | Jonathan Freedman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 1993-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
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