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OverviewSince the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this study investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and its twentieth-century afterlives. Aesthetic Afterlives constructs a far-reaching theoretical narrative by positioning Victorian Aestheticism as the basis of Literary Modernity. Aestheticism's cultivation of irony and reflexive detachment was central to this legacy, but it was also the focus of its own self-critique. Anxieties about the concept and practice of irony persisted through Modernism, and have recently been positioned in Hollinghurst's work as a symptom of the political stasis within post-modern culture. Referring to the recent debates about the ‘new aestheticism' and the politics of aesthetics, Eastham asks how a utopian Aestheticism can be reconstructed from the problematics of irony and aesthetic autonomy that haunted writers from Pater to Adorno. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Andrew EasthamPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9781472512109ISBN 10: 1472512103 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 25 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations / Introduction / 1. Walter Pater'sAcoustic Space: 'The School of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, andthe Politics of Soundscape / 2. Aesthetic Vampirism: The Concept of Irony inthe Work of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Vernon Lee / 3. 'Master of Irony':Henry James, Transatlantic Bildung and the Critique ofAestheticism / 4. Irony's Turn: The Redress of Aestheticism in KatherineMansfield's Notebooks and Stories / 5. Sacrificing Aestheticism: The Dialecticof Modernity and the Ends of Beauty in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Womenin Love / 6. Aristocracies of Mourning: The Reconsecration of Aestheticismin Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited / 7. Sublime Ironies: TheRemainders of Romanticism in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy and Krapp's Last Tape/ 8. Inoperative Ironies: Jamesian Aestheticism and Post-modern Culture in AlanHollinghurst's The Line of Beauty / 9. The Aesthetic Afterlives of MrW.P. : Reanimating Pater in Twenty-first-Century Fiction / Notes / Works Cited\ IndexReviewsAesthetic Afterlives traces the lineage of Paterian aesthetics from its incandescent impact within English fin de siecle culture to its spectral afterimage in modernist and postmodernist writing [...] Ambitious in scope, broadly researched and elaborately (if densely) argued, Eastham's book will prove of immense use to scholars anxious to reanimate an alternative line of influence in the history of literary modernity. * Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania, Australia * Aesthetic Afterlives makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Aestheticism's cultural legacy, with its powerful and eloquent account of Aestheticism's afterlives not only in literary modernism, but also in postmodernism and contemporary culture. * Hugh Stevens, University College, London, UK * What is so striking about Aesthetic Afterlives is the way in which, having established some of the theoretical coordinates that formed the matrix of Aestheticism, it does justice to the rich complexity of affective and aesthetic interactions, including mourning, scorn, irony, yearning, faith and delusion, that mutate through the broad range of texts Eastham considers. * Alex Pestell, University of Sussex, UK * Aesthetic Afterlives traces the lineage of Paterian aesthetics from its incandescent impact within English fin de siecle culture to its spectral afterimage in modernist and postmodernist writing [...] Ambitious in scope, broadly researched and elaborately (if densely) argued, Eastham's book will prove of immense use to scholars anxious to reanimate an alternative line of influence in the history of literary modernity. Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania, Australia Aesthetic Afterlives makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Aestheticism's cultural legacy, with its powerful and eloquent account of Aestheticism's afterlives not only in literary modernism, but also in postmodernism and contemporary culture. Hugh Stevens, University College, London, UK What is so striking about Aesthetic Afterlives is the way in which, having established some of the theoretical coordinates that formed the matrix of Aestheticism, it does justice to the rich complexity of affective and aesthetic interactions, including mourning, scorn, irony, yearning, faith and delusion, that mutate through the broad range of texts Eastham considers. Alex Pestell, University of Sussex, UK Author InformationAndrew Eastham is a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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