Cultivating Victorians: liberal culture and the aesthetic

Abstract

List of Illustrations Preface PART I. VICTORIAN LIBERAL CULTURE Chapter 1. Cultivating Victorians Chapter 2. Reflections of Agency in Ruskin's Venice Chapter 3. The Work of Imposture: The Victorian Public and the Tichborne Case PART II. AESTHETIC AGENCY Chapter 4. Replicating Agency: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester Chapter 5. Against Originality: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Agency Notes Index Acknowledgments