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...
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Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series ;
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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