Modernist aesthetics and consumer culture in the writings of Oscar Wilde /

Paul L. Fortunato.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Fortunato, Paul L., 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Studies in major literary authors
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157) and index.

Physical description: xi, 162 p. ; 24 cm.

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ISBN:9780415981033
Table of Contents:
Background : Wilde's social circles and consumer culture
Newspaper culture in the Pall Mall Gazette years (1884-1890)
The Woman's world (1887-1889) as fashion magazine and modernist laboratory
Philosophy with a needle and thread : the aesthetics of fashion in Baudelaire, Wilde, and Tomson/Watson
Consumer fashion and modernist aesthetics in Lady Windermere's fan (1892)
Mrs. Erlynne as modernist : the artist of consumer image and ritual.