Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture, Hardback

Although the hard-nosed scientist and the dandy aesthete seem unlikely allies at first glance, Lindsay Wilhelm argues that Victorian evolutionism and the Aesthetic (or “art for art's sake”) Movement converged on surprisingly utopian ideas about beauty, pleasure, and the power of good taste to shape our society for the better.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Lindsay (Oklahoma State University) Wilhelm
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 272
• Collection: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Publication date: 2024
• Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23
• Cover type: Hardback