This book discusses the disruptive power of the concept of taste in the works of a number of important British writers, including poets such as Alexander Pope a

Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at differe

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that c

He also shows the different currents at work, belying any simple picture of England and the English as confident and self-assured."--BOOK JACKET.

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.