Extraordinary aesthetes :
decadents, new women, and fin-de-siècle culture /
edited by Joseph Bristow.
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| Summary: | "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."-- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
2023.
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| Series: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in electronic formats. Physical description: 394 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm. more |
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Extraordinary aesthetes. |
| ISBN: | 1487546084 9781487546083 |
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A37063 |
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