Fateful Beauty : : Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 / / Douglas Mao.
When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectua...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION. Talking about Beauty
- CHAPTER ONE. Stealthy Environments
- CHAPTER TWO. Aestheticism's Environments
- CHAPTER THREE. Aesthetics of Acuteness
- CHAPTER FOUR. Tropisms of Longing
- CHAPTER FIVE. Great House and Super-Cortex
- CHAPTER SIX. Growing Up Awry
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index