TY - BOOK AU - Paulson,Ronald ED - Project Muse. TI - The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / SN - 9781421430119 PY - 2019/// CY - Baltimore, Md. PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Esthetique KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - 18e siecle KW - ram KW - Litterature anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Roman anglais KW - Art et litterature KW - Litterature et societe KW - Engels KW - gtt KW - Letterkunde KW - Esthetica KW - Aesthetics, British KW - fast KW - Art and literature KW - English fiction KW - Fiction KW - Technique KW - Literature and society KW - Histoire KW - Esthetique britannique KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1996; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Aesthetics and deism -- Shaftesburian disinterestedness -- Addison's aesthetics of the novel -- The conversation piece : politeness and subversion -- The "Great Creation" : Fielding -- Aesthetics and erotics : Cleland, Fielding, and Sterne -- The strange, trivial and infantile : books for children -- From novel to strange to "sublime" -- From novel to picturesque -- The novelizing of Hogarth; Open Access N2 - In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty - worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's "disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows Hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addison's category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange; 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 only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/71472/ ER -