Table of Contents

Introduction: a brief history of 'aesthetics'; Part I. The Age of Taste: 1. Internal sense theorists; 2. Imagination theorists; 3. Associationist theorists; Part II. The Age of Romanticism: 4. The picturesque; 5. Wordsworth and the early Romantics; 6. Victorian criticism; Part III. The Age of Analysis: 7. Theories of expression; 8. Wittgenstein and afterwards.

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Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.

About the Author

Timothy M. Costelloe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of William and Mary. In 2003 and 2006 he was a Humboldt Fellow at Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. He is author of Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (2007) and editor of The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and his work has appeared in a variety of edited collections and scholarly journals.

Reviews

'[The British Aesthetic Tradition] articulates a line of inquiry that offers a capacious and suggestive account of how modern and eighteenth-century British aesthetics can be understood within a long and at times contentious tradition.' Theresa M. Kelley, Modern Philology