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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 August 2010
      30 June 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511753176
      9780521110976
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753176
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.31kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
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    The Civilized Imagination is a study of literature in a period of cultural change. As part of the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a great transformation occurred in the relations among aesthetic theory, literature, and society. This study analyses such changes as they appear in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, three apparently distinct novelists whom the author locates within a unified cultural movement. Although the works of these writers are extremely different in many respects, in Professor Cottom's view they are all preoccupied with the changing relation between aristocratic and middle-class values. In Ann Radcliffe's works middle-class values are beginning to emerge within a governing aristocratic context; in Jane Austen's novels these newer values are precariously balanced against the old; in Sir Walter Scott's books they have become victorious, at least superficially. Professor Cottorn examines the way these writers deal with such topics as taste, landscape, communications, morality and women, in order to show how certain aesthetic problems result from social change.

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