It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Lucy Hartley
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Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, Lucy Hartley identifies a new language for speaking about beauty, which begins to be articulated from the 1830s in a climate of political reform and becomes linked to emerging ideals of equality, liberty, and individuality. Examining British art and art writing by Charles Lock Eastlake, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward Poynter, William Morris, and John Addington Symonds, Hartley traces a debate about what it means to be interested in...
Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Lucy Hartley is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.
This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain aloud.
Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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