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Moral taste; aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Moral taste; aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel.

Garson, Marjorie.

U. of Toronto Press

2007

483 pages

$75.00

Hardcover

PR878

Garson (English, U. of Toronto, Canada) considers the importance of good taste and moral refinement in Victorian texts and how it was depicted as a sign of proper middle-class subjectivity and entitlement, as well as what this says about national character in the period. She uses the theories of Pierre Bourdieu to examine Walter Scott's Waverley, Jane Austen's ...

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