{"product_id":"9781403945693","title":"Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Beauty for the People","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Beauty for the People\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMaltz, D.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2005-11-22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781403945693\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9780230504059\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 290\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47444755185804,"sku":"9781403945693","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781403945693.jpg?v=1775918604","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781403945693","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}