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- Book Title
- Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture (Edinburgh Critica
- ISBN
- 9780748623853
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
- Publisher
- Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Series
- Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
074862385X
ISBN-13
9780748623853
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Publication Name
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Language
English
Subject
General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-408910
Reviews
In this incisive and wonderfully readable study, Michèle Mendelssohn shows how James and Wilde learned from each other's work, pondered each other's careers, and admired and disdained each other's gifts. Marked by brilliantly detailed renderings of period literary relations and deft close readings, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture intervenes powerfully in debates about taste, commodification, sexuality, professionalization, identity, and originality in Victorian and modernist literature and culture., In this engrossing book, Michèle Mendelssohn challenges the longstanding assumption that Henry James and Oscar Wilde shunned each other's influence, James because of homosexual panic, Wilde because of dandified indifference. On the contrary, Mendelssohn demonstrates how their conflictual relationship, comprised of esteem and contempt, admiration and frustration, attraction and jealousy in equal measure, contributed to shaping the transatlantic culture of aestheticism. Written with verve, and substantiated with meticulous research, Mendelssohn's study offers a fresh perspective on aestheticism while illuminating the obscurities of a fascinating literary friendship.
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College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PERMISSIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (NB The book will include 33 black and white images); INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1; 'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Washington Square and the politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism; CHAPTER 2; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and the Reinvention of Aestheticism; CHAPTER 3; The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde's impressions of James in 'Intentions' and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.; CHAPTER 4; "Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can't tell you - words I can't speak!": the Drama of Identity in "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Guy Domville"; CHAPTER 5; Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde trials, and Interior Decoration; CHAPTER 6; "A nest of almost infant blackmailers!": the End of Innocence in "The Turn of the Screw" and De Profundis; Bibliography; Index.
Synopsis
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., In this engaging and provocative reading of the relations between two canonical Anglo-American authors and the aesthetic culture they helped create, Michle 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 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., 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 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. Key Features The first study devoted exclusively to Wilde and James, who are the most important Irish and American nineteenth-century authorsRewrites standard assumptions about James's and Wilde's relationship and traces its implications for British and American AestheticismRedefines Aestheticism and offers full re-readings of late nineteenth-century literature, visual and material culture, theatre, as well as psychology and sexual identityRefers to several previously unpublished letters by Henry James, 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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