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work_4untdx4cy5gjnnj3molkdfseqq	G. Leypoldt	Aesthetic Specialists and Public Intellectuals: Ruskin, Emerson, and Contemporary Professionalism	2007.0	20	.pdf	application/pdf	8239	409	46	Among Macaulay's younger British contemporaries, a talented representative of the connoisseur as social critic was John Ruskin, whose first Ruskin's approach has been related to the Victorian "moral aesthetic," which seeks to mediate between the social and aesthetic responsibilities of the literary sphere, complicating apparently simple oppositions between art and life.3 The emergence of this critical attitude private aspects of art in a way that not only resembles Romantic discourse (in Wordsworth and Shelley) but also remains important for supposed "aesthete" critics such as Walter Pater (The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969], 143 – 60, 178 – 84). "merely" deal in aesthetics, while others (moral philosophers, political scientists, etc.) do more "serious," socially significant work. When Victorian formalists (Hanslickian Kantians, Paterian "aesthetic critics") seek to authorize a specific style (such as Gothic art), they are confined to abstract 	./cache/work_4untdx4cy5gjnnj3molkdfseqq.pdf	./txt/work_4untdx4cy5gjnnj3molkdfseqq.txt