Victorian Modernism Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience [Hardcover]

Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism.In Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Examining the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist,)and William James (philosopher and psychologist), Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations.In Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Examining the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist,)and William James (philosopher and psychologist), Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations.Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist's light on the relationship between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Feldman examines the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist)and William James (philosopher and psychologist) and relates them to select twentieth-century creations.Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. A sweet continuance: John Ruskin's Victorian Modernism; 3. Arrangements: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Victorian Modernism; 4. Recondite analogies: Augusta Evans' Victorian Modernism; 5. Positions of repose: William James' Victorian Modernism; 6. Afterword; Notes; Index. [T]his is a thought-provoking study. HighllÓ