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Book Title
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture (Edinburgh Critica
ISBN
9780748623853
Publication Name
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Publication Year
2007
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
Michèle Mendelssohn
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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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.

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Publisher
Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
074862385x
ISBN-13
9780748623853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038780653

Product Key Features

Author
Michèle Mendelssohn
Publication Name
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps2124
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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.
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.
Copyright Date
2007
Topic
General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Lccn
2007-408910
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism

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