Tact Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Introduction. An Art of Handling -- Chapter 1. "Our Debt to Lamb": The Romantic Essay and the Emergence of Tact -- Chapter 2. Aesthetic Liberalism: John Stuart Mill as Essayist -- Chapter 3. Teaching Tact: Matthew Arnold and the Function of Criticism -- Chapter 4. The Grounds of Tact: George Eliot's Rage -- Chapter 5. Relief Work: Walter Pater's Tact -- Chapter 6. Tact in Psychoanalysis: Marion Milner