Extraordinary Aesthetes : : Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture /

Extraordinary Aesthetes : : Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture / / ed. by Joseph Bristow.

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Bass, Kasey,
Becker-Leckrone, Megan,
Bristow, Joseph,
Brooke Cameron, S.,
HerausgeberIn:
Bristow, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series ; 32
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.) :; 48 colour illustrations, 4 b&w illustrations
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. NEW WOMEN, FEMALE AESTHETES, AND THE EMERGENCE OF DECADENCE
  • Chapter one. Impressionistic Photography and the Flâneuse 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-SIÈCLE 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

Similar Items