Extraordinary Aesthetes
Title | Extraordinary Aesthetes PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Bristow |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2023-04-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487546092 |
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 the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.
Extraordinary Aesthetes
Title | Extraordinary Aesthetes PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Bristow |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Aesthetic movement (Art) |
ISBN | 9781487546106 |
"The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn toward modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp's radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D'Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, the Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women's writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle."--
Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, Nehb
Title | Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, Nehb PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Bristow |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-05-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781487546083 |
Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
Reading Victorian Literature
Title | Reading Victorian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfreys Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 619 |
Release | 2019-08-28 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 1474448003 |
A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismProvides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Title | The Extraordinary in the Ordinary PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Leddy |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2012-02-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 155111478X |
This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as ‘neat,’ ‘messy,’ ‘pretty,’ ‘lovely,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘pleasant.’ The author advances a general theory of aesthetic experience that can account for our appreciation of art, nature, and the everyday.
The Microgenre
Title | The Microgenre PDF eBook |
Author | Anne H. Stevens |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2020-01-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501345826 |
Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry...microgenres come in all varieties and turn up in every form of media under the sun, tailor-made for enthusiasts of all walks of life. Coming into use in the last decade or so, the term "microgenre" classifies increasingly niche-marketed worlds in popular music, fiction, television, and the Internet. Netflix has recently highlighted our fascination with the ultra-niche genre with hilariously specific classifications -- “independent supernatural dramedy featuring a strong female lead” – that can sometimes hit a little too close to home. Each contribution in this collection introduces readers to a different microgenre, drawn from a range of historical periods and from a variety of media. The Microgenre presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific. It also affirms, in colorful detail, what most people suspect but have trouble fathoming in an increasingly homogenized and commercial West: that imaginative projects are just that, imaginative, diverse, and sometimes completely and hilariously inexplicable.
Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes
Title | Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes PDF eBook |
Author | Elsie Bonita Adams |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Art and literature |
ISBN | 0814201555 |