Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures
ISBN-10
074862385X
ISBN-13
9780748623853
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 21st, 2007
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Dimensions
16.80 x 24.40 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Places a discussion of aestheticism in a transatlantic context, centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde.
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. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late nineteenth century''s most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise. Richly illustrated and historically detailed, this study of James''s and Wilde''s intricate, decades-long relationship brings to light Aestheticism''s 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.
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