عنوان

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture /

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074863021X

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0748651632

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0748697543

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1281252069

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6611252061

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9780748630219

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9780748651634

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9780748697540

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9781281252067

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9786611252069

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074862385X

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0748697535

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6611252061

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9780748623853

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9780748697533

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Title Proper

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Michèle Mendelssohn.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Edinburgh :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Edinburgh University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; INTRODUCTION; chapter 1 'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism; chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking 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.

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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 Domvillechapter 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.

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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. 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 authors Rewrites standard assumptions about James's and Wilde's relationship and traces its implications for British and American Aestheticism Redefines Aestheticism and offers full re-readings of late nineteenth-century literature, visual and material culture, theatre, as well as psychology and sexual identity Refers to several previously unpublished letters by Henry James

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/cttk1r99

Title

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture.

Title

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture.

International Standard Book Number

9780748623853

International Standard Book Number

074862385X

James, Henry,1843-1916-- Criticism and interpretation.

Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900-- Criticism and interpretation.

James, Henry,1843-1916.

Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900.

Aestheticism (Literature)

Aestheticism (Literature)

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.

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LIT-- 004020

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Edition

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Book number

Mendelssohn, Michèle.

Date of Transaction

20201207114635.0

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