Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Informationen zum Autor Michèle Mendelssohn is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in the English Faculty at Oxford University. Klappentext Places a discussion of aestheticism in a transatlantic context, centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde Challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and morality. This book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late 19th century's most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise.

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• Authors: Michele Mendelssohn, Michèle Mendelssohn
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2014
• EAN: 9780748697533
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-9753-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures; Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures; Edinburgh Studies in Transatla
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies