Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture.
Title:
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture.
Author:
Mendelssohn, MichÃl̈e.
ISBN:
9780748630219
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Series:
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures
Contents:
COPYRIGHT -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism -- chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism -- chapter 3 The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde's Impressions of James in Intentions and The Picture of Dorian Gray -- chapter 4 'Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can't tell you - words I can't speak!': The Drama of Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and Guy Domville -- chapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration -- chapter 6 'A nest of almost infant blackmailers': The End of Innocence in 'The Turn of the Screw' and De Profundis -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Places a discussion of aestheticism in a transatlantic context, centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Added Author:
Electronic Access:
Click to View