Tact - Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

About the author

David Russell is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and a tutorial fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Summary

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with others in

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"Russell’sTact is a brilliant and frequently moving study, arguing passionately for the ways in which a greater openness may lead us into richer engagements with our world and doing this by lifting off the film of familiarity that so often obscures from us the canonical writers of the nineteenth century."---Uttara Natarajan, Review in English Studies

Product details

• Authors: David Russell
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780691161198
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16119-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Literary essays, Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism