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Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century

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• Aesthetics -- History -- 19th century

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)
• Asthetik des Hässlichen (in German; Konigsberg: Bornträger, 1853), by Karl Rosenkranz (page images in Germany)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Marc Redfield (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Elliott Schreiber (PDF and Epub at Cornell Open)
• The Role of the Sublime in Kant's Moral Metaphysics, by John R. Goodreau (PDF at crvp.org)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity (Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, c2016), by Katherine Behar (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), by Ari Larissa Heinrich (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Amazons of the Avant-Garde (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c2000), ed. by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, illust. by Alexandra Exter, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, Liubov' Sergeevna Popova, Ol'ga Vladimirovna Rozanova, Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udal'tsova (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2002), by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of the Sublime in Kant's Moral Metaphysics, by John R. Goodreau (PDF at crvp.org)

• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• Fact Into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Herbert L. Sussman (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Nietzsche and Art (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by Anthony M. Ludovici
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at anthonymludovici.com
• Nietzsche and Art (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1912), by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman (HTML at Bartleby)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900), by Edwin Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse, ed. by George Parsons Lathrop (page images at MOA)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Ladies' Vase of Wild Flowers: A Collection of Gems From the Best Authors (Auburn, MA: J. M. Alden, 1850), ed. by Miss Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Poems, ed. by Charles W. Kent (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Romantic Antiquarianism (2014), ed. by Noah Heringman and Crystal B. Lake (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Rebecca N. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Hollis Clayson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Marie-Stephanie Delamaire and Will Slauter (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• L'Art Ottoman: Les Peintres de Turquie (reprint of 1910 original, in French; Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 1988), by Adolphe Thalasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

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