{"product_id":"british-aestheticism-and-the-urban-d-maltz-9781403945693","title":"British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People","description":"This 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. Maltz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1403945691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781403945693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.88w x 0.85d","brand":"D. Maltz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424334004479,"sku":"9781403945693","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cd5ace2-9258-4327-b270-54ea63480775.jpg?v=1761529634","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/british-aestheticism-and-the-urban-d-maltz-9781403945693","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}