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ISBN 9781487546090
1487546092
9781487546106
1487546106
9781487546083
OCLC Number 1351435130
Title Extraordinary aesthetes : decadents, new women, and fin-de-sïcle culture / edited by Joseph Bristow
Imprint Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource
Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library series
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index
Restrictions Available to OhioLINK libraries
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. NEW WOMEN, FEMALE AESTHETES, AND THE EMERGENCE OF DECADENCE -- Chapter one. Impressionistic Photography and the Fĺneuse in Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop -- Chapter two. The Decay of Marriage in Ella D'Arcy's Decadent New Woman Fiction -- Chapter three. Mabel Dearmer's Decadent Way -- PART II. FEMININITY, MASCULINITY, AND FIN-DE-SI€CLE AESTHETICS -- Chapter four. "So much too little": Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, and the Question of Influence -- Chapter five. Richard Le Gallienne and the Rhymers: Masculine Minority in the 1890s -- Chapter six. Max Beerbohm's "Improved" Intentions and the Aesthetics of Cosmesis -- PART III. WOMEN, BABIES, MOONS -- 1890S POETICS -- Chapter seven. Dollie Radford and the Case of the Disappearing Babies -- Chapter eight. "She hath no air": Mary Coleridge's Moon -- PART IV. AESTHETICISM, DECADENCE, AND THE MODERN AGE -- Chapter nine. Radical Empathy in Dora Sigerson's The Fairy Changeling (1898) and Broadside Poems of 1916-1917 -- Chapter ten. The Boom in Yellow: The Afterlife of the 1890s KRIS -- Contributors -- Index -- THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES
Summary "The fin de sïcle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn toward modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp's radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D'Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, the Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women's writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de sïcle."-- Provided by publisher
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2023)
Subject Aesthetic movement (Art) -- Great Britain
Aestheticism (Literature)
Decadence (Literary movement) -- Great Britain
Women artists -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Women authors, English -- 19th century
Women authors, Irish -- 19th century
Women authors, Scottish -- 19th century
Alt Author Bristow, Joseph, editor
Ohio Library and Information Network
OCLC Number 1351435130
ISBN 9781487546090
1487546092
9781487546106
1487546106
9781487546083

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