The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein / Timothy M. Costelloe.

Call Number	111/.850941
Author	Costelloe, Timothy M., author.
Title	The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein / Timothy M. Costelloe.
Physical Description	1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction: a brief history of 'aesthetics' -- Part I. The Age of Taste -- 1. Internal sense theorists -- 2. Imagination theorists -- 3. Associationist theorists -- Part II. The Age of Romanticism -- 4. The picturesque -- 5. Wordsworth and the early Romantics -- 6. Victorian criticism -- Part III. The Age of Analysis -- 7. Theories of expression -- 8. Wittgenstein and afterwards.
Summary	The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought.
Subject	Aesthetics, British History. Aesthetics, American History.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139023399

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Summary	The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction: a brief history of 'aesthetics' -- Part I. The Age of Taste -- 1. Internal sense theorists -- 2. Imagination theorists -- 3. Associationist theorists -- Part II. The Age of Romanticism -- 4. The picturesque -- 5. Wordsworth and the early Romantics -- 6. Victorian criticism -- Part III. The Age of Analysis -- 7. Theories of expression -- 8. Wittgenstein and afterwards.
Subject	Aesthetics, British History. Aesthetics, American History.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139023399