000			01607nam a22001937a 4500
020			_a9780521518307 (hardback)
020			_a9780521734486 (paperback)
082	0	0	_a111.850 941 _bCOS/B
100	1		_aCostelloe, Timothy M.
245	1	4	_a British aesthetic tradition :
260			_aCambridge [England] ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_ax, 350 p. : _bill. ;
520			_a"This is the first single volume to offer a comprehensive and systematic account of British and American aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century"--
520			_a"The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain and the United States from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists, and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought"--
650		0	_aAesthetics, British
650		0	_aAesthetics, American
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General.
942			_cBK
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