Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism (eBook, PDF)

Continuities, Revisions, Speculations
Redaktion: Coste, Bénédicte; Reynier, Christine; Delyfer, Catherine

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. Acknowledging both movements' passion for the 'new', it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Essays interrogate connections, continuities, and intersections, revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the value of the new for each. Visiting well-known and neglected figures, they revise assumptions through approaches that borrow from aesthetics, philosophy, or economics. The book proposes a corrective to the traditional narratives of Aestheticism and Modernism, revitalizing definitions and revealing new directions in aestheticist and modernist studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317265085
• Artikelnr.: 46758586

Autorenporträt

Bénédicte Coste is Professor of English at the University of Burgundy, France. She has published on Victorian literature and culture, aestheticism and decadence, Arnold, Pater, Symonds, Wilde and Symons. She is the author of Walter Pater, esthétique (2011); Walter Pater, critique littéraire (2010) and has co-edited Aesthetic Lives (2013). Catherine Delyfer is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse, France. Her publications focus on fin-de-siècle culture and late-Victorian female writers. She is the author of Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siècle Writing: the Fiction of Lucas Malet (2011) and the co-editor of Aesthetic Lives (2013). Christine Reynier is Professor of English at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier, France. She has published extensively on modernist writers, edited books and journals on Woolf, published a monograph, Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story (2009), and has recently co-edited, Reframing the Modern Short Story, Journal of the Short Story in English 64 (Spring 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
[Bénédicte Coste, Catherine Delyfer and Christine Reynier]
Part I: Connecting Aestheticism and Modernism
1. The New Woman Flâneuse or Streetwalker? George Egerton's Urban
Aestheticism
[Tina O'Toole]
2. Re-crediting Arthur Symons, Decadent-Modernist Literary Ghost
[Elisa Bizzotto]
3. Modernists as Decadents: Excess and Waste in G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound and Others
[Rainer Emig]
4. From Periphery to Centre: The Female Writer in Walter Pater and Virginia
Woolf
[Lene Østermark-Johansen]
5. Literary Cosmopolitans and Agents of Mediation: Oscar Wilde and
Fin-de-siècle Viennese Artistic Networks
[Sandra Mayer]
Part II: Revising Assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism
6. Wet Aesthetics: Immersion versus the 'perfect imbecility' of the Stream
in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
[Rebecca Bowler and Scott McCracken]
7. Artist Stories of the 1890s: Life, Art, and Sacrifice
[Elke D'hoker]
8. Aestheticism and Utilitarianism. A Victorian Debate and its Critical
Legacy
[Emmanuelle De Champs]
9. 'Dangerous thoughts in Bloomsbury': Ethical Aestheticism and Imperial
Fictions
[Christine Froula]
Part III: Speculative Orientations in Aestheticism and Modernism
10. Speculative Modernism
[Stephen Ross]
11. The Modernist Trajectory of Economics
[Mary Poovey]
12. Speculating on Art in Fin-de-siècle Fiction
[Catherine Delyfer]
13. Bogus Modernism: Impersonation, Deception and Trust in Ford Madox Ford
and Evelyn Waugh
[Rob Hawkes]
14. Ownership and Interpretation: on Ezra Pound's Deluxe First Editions
[Michael Kindellan]