The Civilized Imagination
A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19915489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Cottom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Publication date | 1985-06-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Civilized Imagination (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511753176 |
| OpenAlex | W4251515298 |
| Open Library | OL2854544M |
| ISBN | 9780511753176 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | cDKUPwAACAAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The Civilized Imagination is a study of literature in a period of cultural change. As part of the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a great transformation occurred in the relations among aesthetic theory, literature, and society. This study analyses such changes as they appear in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, three apparently distinct novelists whom the author locates within a unified cultural movement. Although the works of these writers are extremely different in many respects, in Professor Cottom's view they are all preoccupied with the changing relation between aristocratic and middle-class values. In Ann Radcliffe's works middle-class values are beginning to emerge within a governing aristocratic context; in Jane Austen's novels these newer values are precariously balanced against the old; in Sir Walter Scott's books they have become victorious, at least superficially. Professor Cottorn examines the way these writers deal with such topics as taste, landscape, communications, morality and women, in order to show how certain aesthetic problems result from social change
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Literature · Middle class · Morality · Order (exchange) · Period (music) · Political science · Relation (database) · Sociology · Taste · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · 1771-1832 · 19th century · Aesthetics in literature · Aesthetics, British · Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764-1823) · Ann Ward, 1764-1823 Radcliffe · British · British Aesthetics · Classes sociales dans la littérature · English fiction · Esthetique · Esthétique dans la littérature · Great britain · History and criticism · Jane Austen (1775-1817) · Literatura inglesa (história e crítica) · Literature and society · Littérature et société · Roman anglais · Scott, walter, sir · Social classes in literature · Walter Scott Sir (1771-1832) · Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 Scott
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2020 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |