Professions of Taste Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture
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"Our understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism takes a leap forward with Freedman's Professions of Taste, an ambitiously theorized, handsomely written, and enlightening book."—<i>Studies in English Literature</i>
"<i>Professions of Taste</i> is a work that Henry James might have read with pleasure. It is beautifully written, crafted in the highest spirit of critical enterprise."—<i>American Literature</i>
"An important and innovative book. . . . <i>Professions of Taste</i> reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer geneaology of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role."—<i>Henry James Review</i>
"This well-written study sheds much new light on the sphere of experience and expertise, 'the aesthetic,' that was created in the latter half of the nineteenth century."—<i>Virginia Quarterly Review</i>