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Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Joseph Bristow
Part One: New Women, Female Aesthetes, and the Emergence of Decadence
1. Impressionistic Photography and the
flâneuse in Amy Levy’s
Romance of a Shop
S. Brooke Cameron
2. The Decay of Marriage in Ella D’Arcy’s Decadent New Woman Fiction
Kate Krueger
3. Mabel Dearmer’s Decadent Way
Diana Maltz
Part Two: Femininity, Masculinity, and Fin-de-Siècle Aesthetics
4. "So much too little": Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, and the Question of Influence
Beth Newman
5. Richard Le Gallienne and the Rhymers: Masculine Minority in the 1890s
Emily Harrington
6. Max Beerbohm’s "Improved"
Intentions by Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetics of Cosmesis
Megan Becker
Part Three: Women, Babies, Moons - 1890s Poetics
7. Dollie Radford and the Case of the Disappearing Babies
Julie Wise
8. "She hath no air": Mary Coleridge’s Moon
Kasey Bass
Part Four: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Modern Age
9. Radical Empathy in Dora Sigerson’s
Fairy Changeling and Broadside Poems of 1916-17
So Young Park
10. The Boom in Yellow: The Afterlife of the 1890s
Kristin Mahoney
Contributors
Index
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Joseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
