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Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture /
This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late ninete...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Domvillechapter 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.