An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste (Classic Reprint)
An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste (Classic Reprint)

Author: Richard Payne Knight

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-03

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780282237295

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Excerpt from An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste In objects of vision, however, this influence (if organic sensation is much more pievalent m the imitation than the reality. For painting be1ng no ways connected with utility, but 1n tended merely to please, mental habits, preju 'dices, and associations have much less controul 'over it than over the objects which it1epre sents. In building and ga1dening, and still more in dress and fu1n1ture, the charms of neatness, propriety, richness, Splendo'r, Ste. Often reconcile us to those harsh and disce1d ant Oppositions of colour, which, if imitated by painting, in all their native cru'dity, and without beihg softened and melted together by tender gradations of shadow, become glaringly offensive to every eye, and quite intole1able to those accustomed to the art. In thereality, also, much will dependhp'on the kind and degree of light to which objects are exposed; whence we can bear, and even require, much' more brilliance and opposition of colour in the 1nsides than on the outsides of buildings; and more in articles, that are to be seen by candle light, than ih those which are to be exposed to day-light: for candle-light, moon-light, and twilight melt every thing into one mild hue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown

Author: Philip Barnard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0190942266

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Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. The seven novels he published during his lifetime are now studied for their narrative complexity, innovations in genre, and social-political commentaries on life in early America and the revolutionary Atlantic. Through the late twentieth century, Brown was best known as an author of political romances in the gothic mode that proved to be widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel. This Handbook extends its focus beyond the well-known novels to address the full range of Brown's prolific literary career. The Handbook includes original essays on all of Brown's fiction and nonfiction writings, and offers new interpretations of the contexts of his work: from the literary, social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The thirty-five contributors in this volume speak in new ways about Brown's depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property relations, as well as colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, and women's rights. Brown's perspectives on American and global history, emerging modernity, selfhood and otherness, and other topics, are explained in comprehensible and up-to-date terms. In addition to opening up new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides the intellectual foundations needed to understand Brown's enduring impact and literary legacy.