Archibald Alison’s Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) remained long neglected after their first release. They were rediscovered only twenty years later, thanks to a review by Francis Jeffrey published on the «Edinburgh Review» in 1811 that suddenly improved their fame and circulation. This paper aims at pointing out retrospectively the reasons for that prolonged indifference, considering to what extent Alison’s aesthetic theory and his emotivistic reductionism might seem interesting and acceptable to eighteenth-century British readers.
GATTI, A. (2014). I limiti del soggettivismo estetico. Sui principî del gusto di Archibald Alison. I CASTELLI DI YALE ONLINE, II(2), 85-103.
I limiti del soggettivismo estetico. Sui principî del gusto di Archibald Alison
GATTI, Andrea
2014
Abstract
Archibald Alison’s Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) remained long neglected after their first release. They were rediscovered only twenty years later, thanks to a review by Francis Jeffrey published on the «Edinburgh Review» in 1811 that suddenly improved their fame and circulation. This paper aims at pointing out retrospectively the reasons for that prolonged indifference, considering to what extent Alison’s aesthetic theory and his emotivistic reductionism might seem interesting and acceptable to eighteenth-century British readers.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.