Art's Undoing : In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism /

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Radical aestheticism describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century British literature, offering us the best way to reckon with what takes place at certain moments in texts by Shelley, Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Rossetti, and Wilde. This book expl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pyle, Forest, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
English literature.
Art and literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Art et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esthetisme (Litterature)
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A light more dread than obscurity" : spelling and kindling in Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • "I hold it towards you" : Keats's weakness
  • What the zeros taught : Emily Dickinson, event-machine
  • Hopkins's sighs
  • Superficiality : what is loving and what is dead in Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • "Rings, pears, and all" : Wilde's extravagance.

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