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Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Michèle Mendelssohn

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Description:In this engaging and provocative reading of the relations between two canonical Anglo-American authors and the aesthetic culture they helped create, Michele Mendelssohn challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and morality. This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry Jamess and Oscar Wildes relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late nineteenth centurys most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise.Richly illustrated and historically detailed, this study of Jamess and Wildes intricate, decades-long relationship brings to light Aestheticisms truly transatlantic nature through close readings of both authors works, as well as nineteenth-century art, periodicals and rare manuscripts. As Mendelssohn shows, both authors were deeply influenced by the visual and decorative arts, and by contemporary artists such as George Du Maurier and James McNeill Whistler. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture offers a nuanced reading of a complex relationship that promises to transform the way in which we imagine late nineteenth-century British and American literary culture."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture. To get started finding Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 310

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Release: 2008

ISBN: 1281252069

Description: In this engaging and provocative reading of the relations between two canonical Anglo-American authors and the aesthetic culture they helped create, Michele Mendelssohn challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and morality. This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry Jamess and Oscar Wildes relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late nineteenth centurys most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise.Richly illustrated and historically detailed, this study of Jamess and Wildes intricate, decades-long relationship brings to light Aestheticisms truly transatlantic nature through close readings of both authors works, as well as nineteenth-century art, periodicals and rare manuscripts. As Mendelssohn shows, both authors were deeply influenced by the visual and decorative arts, and by contemporary artists such as George Du Maurier and James McNeill Whistler. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture offers a nuanced reading of a complex relationship that promises to transform the way in which we imagine late nineteenth-century British and American literary culture."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture. To get started finding Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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