It takes the average reader 5 hours and 13 minutes to read One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic by Martha Banta
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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of those who rose to this urgent challenge?artists, architects, writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific inquiry?brought about an...
One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic by Martha Banta is 306 pages long, and a total of 78,336 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 8 minutes to read One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic aloud.
One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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