Breaking the Frame

Marshall's book considers cases of aesthetic experience embedded in, rather than detached from, everyday life: texts that blur the boundaries between art and nature, life, or reality, including novels by Rousseau, Henry Mackenzie, Charlotte Lennox and Jane Austen. Other chapters treat theoretical work on aesthetics, including theories of the picturesque and ut pictura poesis and Hume's standard of taste. This collection of case studies offers a rewarding approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in eighteenth-century fiction