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Eileen Cleere argues in this interdisciplinary study that mid-century discoveries about hygiene and cleanliness not only influenced public health, civic planning, and medical practice but also powerfully reshaped the aesthetic values of the British middle class. By focusing on paintings, domestic architecture, and interior design, The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns shows that the “sanitary aesthetic” significantly transformed the taste of the British public over the nineteenth century by equating robust health and cleanliness with new definitions of beauty and new experiences of aisthesis. Covering everything from connoisseurs to custodians, Cleere demonstrates that Victorian art critics, engineers, and architects—and even novelists from George Eliot to Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Young to Sarah Grand—all participated in a vital cultural debate over hygiene, cleanliness, and aesthetic enlightenment.  The Sanitary Arts covers the mid-forties controversy over cleaning the dirt from the pictures in the National Gallery, the debate over decorative “dust traps” in the overstuffed Victorian home, and the late-century proliferation of hygienic breeding principles as a program of aesthetic perfectibility, to demonstrate the unintentionally collaborative work of seemingly unrelated events and discourses. Bringing figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Ruskin into close conversation about the sanitary status of beauty in a variety of forms and environments, Cleere forcefully demonstrates that aesthetic development and scientific discovery can no longer be understood as separate or discrete forces of cultural change.

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9780814293621 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, July 28, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Eileen Cleere argues in this interdisciplinary study that mid-century discoveries about hygiene and cleanliness not only influenced public health, civic planning, and medical practice but also powerfully reshaped the aesthetic values of the British middle class.
9780814212585 | Ohio State Univ Pr, July 28, 2014, cover price $59.95

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9780814252789 | Reprint edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, June 1, 2016), cover price $21.95

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9780823251117 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 28, 2013, cover price $100.00

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9780823251124 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 28, 2013, cover price $32.00
9780295972725, titled "Beauty & Violence: Japanese Prints : 1839-1892" | Univ of Washington Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | also contains Beauty & Violence: Japanese Prints : 1839-1892

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By Pat Hardy (contributor)

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9780300176025 | Yale Univ Pr, July 31, 2012, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible...read more

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9780415961189 | Routledge, January 30, 2008, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible.

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9780203937822 | Routledge, November 16, 2007, cover price $108.00

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Product Description: Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed...read more

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9780691127262 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 29, 2007, cover price $55.00

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9780691143231 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 5, 2009, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life.

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Product Description: This collection of essays stems from the conference ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature and Aesthetics’, which was held at the University of Milan in 2006 and organised by the editors of this volume. The interface between word and image covered in these essays embraces the fields of literature, architecture, painting, photography, music and art criticism...read more
By Francesca Frigerio (editor) and Francesca Orestano (editor)

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9783039118403 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 15, 2009, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays stems from the conference ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature and Aesthetics’, which was held at the University of Milan in 2006 and organised by the editors of this volume.

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Product Description: Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare's plays, from the frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition to the multiple images placed within the text of Victorian editions...read more

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9780521878371 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2009), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare's plays, from the frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition to the multiple images placed within the text of Victorian editions.

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9781405135771 | Blackwell Pub, September 28, 2007, cover price $121.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470691311 | Blackwell Pub, July 11, 2008, cover price $94.95

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9780470692035 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 15, 2008), cover price $100.00

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Product Description: The nineteenth century saw a marked rise both in the sheer numbers of women active in visual art professions and in the discursive concern for the woman artist in fiction, the periodical press, art history, and politics. The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian women writers used the controversial figure of the woman painter to intervene in the discourse of aesthetics...read more

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9780814210819 | 1 edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, March 8, 2008), cover price $52.95 | About this edition: The nineteenth century saw a marked rise both in the sheer numbers of women active in visual art professions and in the discursive concern for the woman artist in fiction, the periodical press, art history, and politics.
9780814291603 | 2 cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, March 8, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The nineteenth century saw a marked rise both in the sheer numbers of women active in visual art professions and in the discursive concern for the woman artist in fiction, the periodical press, art history, and politics.

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Product Description: This book examines the representation of a variety of arts--primarily painting, theater, and music--within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists. It charts a historical progression, from Romantic poetry, through mid-century Realism, to Aestheticism, showing how authors used references to other forms of art to illuminate their own aesthetic ideals...read more

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9780521581165 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $119.99

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9780521025348 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2006), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This book examines the representation of a variety of arts--primarily painting, theater, and music--within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists.

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Product Description: This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival...read more

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9781403945693 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 17, 2005, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements.

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9780814290491 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, December 30, 2004), cover price $9.95

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9780814251294 | Ohio State Univ Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $49.95

Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the "museum age," Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as "living forms," mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms. (view table of contents)

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9780791455616 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $81.50

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9780791455623 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time.

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Product Description: CALLING OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art his "most elusive legacy," Brown attempts to define Wilde's conception of what art is and what it is not, of what the experience of art means in the modern world, and of the contradictory relations between the work of art and the sphere of everyday ethics...read more

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9780813917283 | Univ of Virginia Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: CALLING OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art his "most elusive legacy," Brown attempts to define Wilde's conception of what art is and what it is not, of what the experience of art means in the modern world, and of the contradictory relations between the work of art and the sphere of everyday ethics.

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9780813918884 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: CALLING OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art his "most elusive legacy," Brown attempts to define Wilde's conception of what art is and what it is not, of what the experience of art means in the modern world, and of the contradictory relations between the work of art and the sphere of everyday ethics.

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Product Description: This study examines the role of indeterminacy - what Chesterton called «the final skepticism which can find no floor to the universe» - in nineteenth-century British art. Beginning in 1806 with Wordsworth's questioning of the essential ground and companionableness of things and concluding with Hardy's dramatization in Wessex Poems of the treacherous relationship between the word and the image, 'If Mine Had Been the Painter's Hand' chronicles the growing sense of the antagonism of things as evidenced in the irreconcilable tension between the visual and the verbal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820440637 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: This study examines the role of indeterminacy - what Chesterton called «the final skepticism which can find no floor to the universe» - in nineteenth-century British art.

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Product Description: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition...read more

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9780813916347 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

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9780813929323 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 17, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

Product Description: From the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron to the painting of John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich to the precinematic institutions of the panorama and diorama, The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism lends new vigor to ongoing debates about the nature of Romanticism, nineteenth-century culture, and the origins of cinema...read more

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9780801845055 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: From the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron to the painting of John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich to the precinematic institutions of the panorama and diorama, The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism lends new vigor to ongoing debates about the nature of Romanticism, nineteenth-century culture, and the origins of cinema.

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