Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson denounced those who dress uncharitable motives in the flattering garb of compassion: “I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?” (135). Arielle Zibrak’s Writing Against Reform argues that, for a range of late-nineteenth-century authors, a cognate aversion to sham benevolence motivated an aesthetic project committed to art for art’s sake. For Zibrak, these ...
Source: Transatlantica
DOI: 10.4000/15i3h
Author: Nathan Wolff
Institution: Tufts University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7124165002