Thomas Love Peacock Published his The Misfortunes of Elphin in an attempt to satirize what he viewed as affectations employed by his contemporary fiction writers, also taking aim at his traditional targets, including theories regarding universal education, the removal from… Read More ›
art for art’s sake
Walter Pater and Aestheticism
Walter Pater (1839–1894) is best known for his phrase “art for art’s sake.” In his insistence on artistic autonomy, on aesthetic experience as opposed to aesthetic object, and on experience in general as an ever vanishing flux, he is a… Read More ›
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