Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940

This 2001 book studies the concept of parody as a strategy used by sexually marginalized groups.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Alfred Tennyson and the critical sexualization of Aestheticism; 2. The leering creatures of W. H. Mallock and Vernon Lee; 3. Gigolo economics: W. S. Gilbert and the market value of parodic promiscuity; 4. 'Men of my own sex': genius, sexuality, and George du Maurier's artists; 5. Epistemological misfiring in the aestheticist camp of Ada Leverson and Robert Hichens; 6. Max Beerbohm, Christopher Isherwood, and Camp Homage; Epilogue; Notes; Works cites; Index.

About the author

Dennis Denisoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson Polytechnic University.

Summary

This 2001 book adds an important dimension to the concept of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized groups undermine the status quo. Dennis Denisoff explores the interactions of late nineteenth and twentieth-century parody and aestheticism with the texts of canonical authors.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Denisoff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521800396
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80039-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 496 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies