British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870-1900 : beauty for the people

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British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870-1900 : beauty for the people

Title remainder

beauty for the people

Statement of responsibility

Diana Maltz

Creator

• Maltz, Diana, 1965-
• Maltz, Diana, 1965-

Subject

• Aesthetics, British -- 19th century
• Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• City and town life -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Poor in literature
• Aesthetic movement (Art) -- Great Britain
• Urban poor -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
• Working class in literature
• Social problems -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Aestheticism (Literature)

Language

eng

Summary

"British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People explores the ways in which middle-class people sought to bring gifts of beauty to the slums of London. Diana Maltz throws fresh light on British Aestheticism as a social movement, on bourgeois myths and insights into tenement life, and on late Victorian cultural philanthropy in practice. Maltz offers a stimulating reinterpretation of the social reformers Octavia Hill, Samuel Barnett, and Henrietta Barnett, and her chapters examine fictional treatments of 'missionary aestheticism' by Walter Peter, George Gissing, and Arthur Morrison as well as visual satires by cartoonists Charles Keene and George Du Maurier."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture