Fateful Beauty : Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960

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When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mao, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern.
Literature and society.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Society in literature.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Litterature > Esthetique.
Litterature et societe.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. Weaving together readings in literature, psychology, biology, philosophy, education, child-rearing advice, and interior design, he shows how this idea abet.
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages).
ISBN:9781400832804

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