Henry James Oscar Wilde And Aesthetic Culture

Author : Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748697543
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture written by Michele Mendelssohn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480041
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement written by David Garrett Izzo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; he finally become a British subject near the end of his life. His status as a permanent outsider is responsible for the recurring themes in his writing dealing with European sophistication (decadence) compared to American lack of sophistication (or innocence). He is respected in modern times for his psychological insight, for being able to reveal his characters' deepest motivations. These 11 essays, along with an introduction and an afterword, examine James's work through the prism of the author's latest style. Topics the contributing authors address include the Henry James revival of the 1930s, three of James's male aesthetics, women in his works, literary forgery, and parallels with the career and views of Margaret Oliphant. Three essays delve into issues of representation in art and fiction, then three more explore decadence, identity and homosexuality.

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721783
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professions of Taste written by Jonathan Freedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces Henry James's career-long encounter with the tradition of British aestheticism and places both in the context of the late-19th-century's professionalization and commodification of literary life. Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer genealogy 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. This book aims to enlighten the reader's understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism.

Author : S. Salamensky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137011882
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde written by S. Salamensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.

Author : Mary Warner Blanchard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074604
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's America written by Mary Warner Blanchard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism". The nation was still shaken by the Civil War, and Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to open new horizons. In this first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the U.S., Mary Blanchard provides an imaginative account of a neglected dimension of our history. 221 illustrations.

Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016134
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde in Context written by Kerry Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

Author : Michèle Mendelssohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192523295
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Oscar Wilde written by Michèle Mendelssohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, this book tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. 'Success is a science,' Wilde believed, 'if you have the conditions, you get the result.' Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michèle Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for story-telling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the United States and Britain with his words and ended up conquering the world. Following the twists and turns of Wilde's journey, Mendelssohn vividly depicts sensation-hungry Victorian journalism and popular entertainment alongside racial controversies, sex scandals, and the growth of Irish nationalism. This ground-breaking revisionist history shows how Wilde's tumultuous early life embodies the story of the Victorian era as it tottered towards modernity. Riveting and original, Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life like no other.

Author : Choon-Hee Kim
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527546454
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West written by Choon-Hee Kim and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work and influenced his legacy through the themes of Jamesian cultural anxiety between and beyond spatio-temporal boundaries. As such, each chapter constructs a mode of reading to map and formulate one’s own cultural perspective in various contexts relying on their unique engagement with James’s and Jamesian creative acts of writing—aesthetics and science, the (auto-)biographical as social aspects, genre as literary-social context, the artistic and the economic, editorship and readership, and Asian perspectives on cultural influences and identities—to generate insights and establish new intercultural understandings. These are the traces of the contributors’ national, social, cultural consciousness that allow the definition of the Jamesian worldview as a particularly universal one in a global context.

Author : Whiteley Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474443753
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907 written by Whiteley Giles Whiteley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of spaceDiscusses a hitherto under-researched tradition of city-writing, linking Ruskin to modernismReads comparatively five important mid to late nineteenth-century writersMarries close textual analysis with historically and geographically informed contextFills a gap in the critical literature on city-writing between realism and early modernismCharting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century. With chapters devoted to the ways in which aesthetic and decadent writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde built upon and challenged Ruskin's ideas, the book links the late Dickens to the early modernism of Henry James. The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature gives a vibrant vision of what an aesthetically sensitive treatment of these spaces looked like during the period.

Author : Andrew Eastham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441102086
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Afterlives written by Andrew Eastham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this study investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and its twentieth-century afterlives. Aesthetic Afterlives constructs a far-reaching theoretical narrative by positioning Victorian Aestheticism as the basis of Literary Modernity. Aestheticism's cultivation of irony and reflexive detachment was central to this legacy, but it was also the focus of its own self-critique. Anxieties about the concept and practice of irony persisted through Modernism, and have recently been positioned in Hollinghurst's work as a symptom of the political stasis within post-modern culture. Referring to the recent debates about the 'new aestheticism' and the politics of aesthetics, Eastham asks how a utopian Aestheticism can be reconstructed from the problematics of irony and aesthetic autonomy that haunted writers from Pater to Adorno.