{"product_id":"professions-of-taste-henry-james-british-aestheticism-and-commodity-culture-paperback-softback-9780804721783","title":"Professions of Taste; Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804721783","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProfessions of Taste\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHenry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan Freedman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804721783\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Our understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism takes a leap forward with Freedman's Professions of Taste, an ambitiously theorized, handsomely written, and enlightening book.\"—\u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eProfessions of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e is a work that Henry James might have read with pleasure. It is beautifully written, crafted in the highest spirit of critical enterprise.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \"An important and innovative book. . . . \u003ci\u003eProfessions of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer geneaology of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role.\"—\u003ci\u003eHenry James Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"This well-written study sheds much new light on the sphere of experience and expertise, 'the aesthetic,' that was created in the latter half of the nineteenth century.\"—\u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Stanford University Press classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744288141592,"sku":"9780804721783","price":26.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/professions-of-taste-henry-james-british-aestheticism-and-commodity-culture-paperback-softback-9780804721783","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}