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Title Extraordinary aesthetes : decadents, new women, and fin-de-siecle 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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Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library series
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
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 Name Bristow, Joseph,
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The fin de siecle 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 siecle."-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2023).
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. NEW WOMEN, FEMALE AESTHETES, AND THE EMERGENCE OF DECADENCE -- Chapter one. Impressionistic Photography and the Flaneuse 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-SIECLE 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
ISBN 9781487546090 (electronic bk.)
1487546092 (electronic bk.)
9781487546106 (electronic bk.)
1487546106 (electronic bk.)
9781487546083
OCLC # 1351435130
Additional Format Print version: Extraordinary aesthetes. 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 1487546084 9781487546083 (OCoLC)1348634249



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