The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / / Ronald Paulson.

• Author: Paulson, Ronald.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xix, 369 pages :); illustrations)
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1996

Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not onl...