This book discusses the disruptive power of the concept of taste in the works of a number of important British writers, including poets such as Alexander Pope a

Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at differe

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that c

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time w