RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 The Progress of Taste in Mid-Nineteenth Century England: Art in Wilkie Collins' Early Writing
A1 Díaz Martínez, Julián
K1 Wilkie Collins
K1 época victoriana
K1 siglo XIX
AB This dissertation shows the extent to which Wilkie Collins reflected the changing mid-Victorian perceptions on aesthetic discrimination in his early body of work. A producer of literary commodities for a middle-class public, Collins had an acute understanding of the pivotal changes brought by capitalist development in what concerned the acquisition of taste: once a matter restricted to a selected few and now, as his career in the field of letters progressed, a right demanded by many. Following a close reading of his literary production, essays and correspondence during the 1850s, Collins emerges as an author thoroughly aware of the democratisation of taste that pervaded a crucial decade of the nineteenth century.
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23322
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23322
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026