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... what some saw as misguided or unregulated applications of science . Be- cause most Victorian literary artists and social critics believed unswerv- ingly in the moral function of art and criticism , xii PARADIS & POSTLEWAIT : INTRODUCTION.
... what some saw as misguided or unregulated applications of science . Be- cause most Victorian literary artists and social critics believed unswerv- ingly in the moral function of art and criticism , xii PARADIS & POSTLEWAIT : INTRODUCTION.
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... criticism of the Royal Academy ex- hibition in 1878 - six articles , extending over two months - that he ac- tually considered expanding them into a book to be called " The Scientific Aspects of Art . " 36 As his daughter later ...
... criticism of the Royal Academy ex- hibition in 1878 - six articles , extending over two months - that he ac- tually considered expanding them into a book to be called " The Scientific Aspects of Art . " 36 As his daughter later ...
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... criticism of life , yet who was unable to extend that criticism to science in a serious way . 27 As we have seen , he regarded " facts " as firm , objective , and ordered . The world presents us " the spec- tacle of a vast multitude of ...
... criticism of life , yet who was unable to extend that criticism to science in a serious way . 27 As we have seen , he regarded " facts " as firm , objective , and ordered . The world presents us " the spec- tacle of a vast multitude of ...
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Contents | 10 |
Preface By JAMES Paradis and THOMAS POSTLEWAIT | 39 |
Carlyles Extension | 69 |
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