A Stanford University Press classic.

Reviews
"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."-Studies in English Literature
"Professions of Taste is a work that Henry James might have read with pleasure. It is beautifully written, crafted in the highest spirit of critical enterprise."-American Literature
"An important and innovative book. . . . Professions of Taste 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."-Henry James Review
"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."-Virginia Quarterly Review



Book Information
ISBN 9780804721783
Author Jonathan Freedman
Format Paperback
Page Count 340
Imprint Stanford University Press
Publisher Stanford University Press
Weight(grams) 467g