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The thesis deals primarily with the term wit and its modern and historical usage in literary and aesthetic theories. Further, it concerned with the literary and aesthetic implications of the terms wit and esprit as they were theorized in critical writings of several authors of the early modern England and France. The thesis has two primary goals. The first goal is to re-assess the English concept of wit, nowadays regarded as an out-dated device of past poetic systems, and to present it as vital and useful part of the contemporary discourse. The second goal is to provide comparative reading of early modern English and French theoretical texts dealing with wit and esprit, respectively. Presenting ideas on the English term wit as employed in the theoretical writings in the light of its French equivalent esprit, I wish to demonstrate a gradual development of the terms from rhetoric to aesthetic.

English literature --- French literature --- Aesthetics, British. --- Aesthetics, French. --- French aesthetics --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- History and criticism.

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Aesthetics of art --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- Art, British --- Aesthetics, British --- Art britannique --- Esthétique britannique --- -Art, British --- -British art --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- -Aesthetics, British --- Esthétique britannique

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Aesthetics, British --- Aesthetics, French --- Art patronage --- Arts patronage --- Business patronage of the arts --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of art --- Art and industry --- French aesthetics --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- CDL --- 75.034/035

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Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Taste in literature. --- Aesthetics, British. --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. --- English literature --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- History and criticism. --- England --- Intellectual life --- Taste in literature --- Aesthetics, British --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature --- History and criticism

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This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt the danger of excessive emotion and association in art, Ruskin's struggle with the sublime but not the picturesque, is, along with the pathetic fallacy, examined. These concepts, too, are considered in light of Ruskin's continuing religious and intellectual development. Finally, Ruskin's loss of faith is analyzed in relation to the problem of allegory in art. Ruskin argued for an unchanging standard of beauty, though the psychological nature of the artist is related to his art medium.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Aesthetics of art --- Ruskin, John --- Ruskin, John, --- Aesthetics, British --- -Criticism --- -Appraisal of books --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- -Appraisal --- -Aesthetics --- -Ruskin, John --- Criticism --- History --- Aesthetics. --- Aesthetics --- Rëskin, Dzhon, --- Ruskin, --- Ruskin, J. --- Rŏsŭkʻin, --- Modern painters, Author of, --- Author of Modern painters, --- Graduate of Oxford, --- Rasukin, Jon, --- ラスキンジョン,