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Aestheticism (Literature)

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• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (London: Grant Richards, 1922), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by William Aspenwall Bradley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's Moralités Légendaires (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Michele Hannoosh (PDF at Ohio State)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)
• Inquiries and Opinions (1907), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Foreign Literature (London: Duckworth and Co., c1908), by Virginia M. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)

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• Modernities (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1914), by Horace B. Samuel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by José Luis Venegas (PDF at Ohio State)

• Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-Envisioning the Legacy and Philosophical Relevance of Negritude (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Cheikh Thiam (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Eric L. Berlatsky (PDF at Ohio State)
• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florentin Smarandache's Work, by Ion Soare (PDF at UNM)

• An Outline of Romanticism in the West (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by John Claiborne Isbell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Romantic Circles Praxis Series (1997-) (partial serial archives)
• Romantic Poetics of Public Feeling (2021), ed. by Lily Gurton-Wachter and Tristram Wolff (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by Orrin N. C. Wang (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis (2008), ed. by Joel Faflak (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Gastronomies (2007), ed. by Denise Gigante (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Buddhism (2007), ed. by Mark Lussier (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Historicizing Romantic Sexuality (2006), ed. by Richard C. Sha (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Leon Chai (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2003), ed. by Lisa Malinowski Steinman (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age (1999), ed. by Karen A. Weisman (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the Law (1999), ed. by Michael Steven Macovski (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Passions (1998), ed. by Elizabeth A. Fay (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Conspiracy (1997), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Libraries (2004), ed. by Ina Ferris (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Re-Reading Box Hill: Reading the Practice of Reading Everyday Life (2000), ed. by William H. Galperin (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Last Formalist: or, W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur (1997), by W. J. T. Mitchell, ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Thomas Weiskel (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang, contrib. by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Harold Bloom, Marc Redfield, and Laura Quinney (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Schelling and Romanticism (2000), ed. by David S. Ferris (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• The "Honourable Characteristic of Poetry": Two Hundred Years of Lyrical Ballads (1999), ed. by Marcy L. Tanter (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Book-Bills of Narcissus (third edition, 1895), by Richard Le Gallienne (Gutenberg text)
• Pesymizm, Romantyzm a Podstawy Chrześcijaństwa (2 volumes in Polish; Krakow: Drukarni "Czasu", 1915), by Marjan Zdziechowski
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Politische Romantik (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1919), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Politische Romantik (second edition, in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1925), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rousseau and Romanticism (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Irving Babbitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google

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