Cultivating Victorians
Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic

David Wayne Thomas

2003 | 248 pages | Cloth $59.95
Literature | Cultural Studies

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

PART I. VICTORIAN LIBERAL CULTURE
Chapter 1. Cultivating Victorians
Chapter 2. Reflections of Agency in Ruskin's Venice
Chapter 3. The Work of Imposture: The Victorian Public and the Tichborne Case

PART II. AESTHETIC AGENCY
Chapter 4. Replicating Agency: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester
Chapter 5. Against Originality: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Agency

Notes
Index
Acknowledgments