Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives

Author:   Jane Ford (Keele University, UK) ,  Kim Edwards Keates (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) ,  Patricia Pulham (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   226
Publication Date:   03 November 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jane Ford (Keele University, UK) ,  Kim Edwards Keates (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) ,  Patricia Pulham (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138826342


ISBN 10:   1138826340
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   03 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham Part I: Articulating Desire 1. Always Leave Them Wanting More: Oscar Wilde’s Salome and the Failed Circulations of Desire Ruth Robbins 2. A.E. Housman’s Ballad Economies Veronica Alfano 3. Perfume Clouds: Olfaction, Memory, and Desire in Arthur Symons’s London Nights (1895) Jane Desmarais Part II: Human Currencies 4. Urban Economies and the Dead-Woman Muse in the Poetry of Amy Levy and Djuna Barnes Sarah Parker 5. Greek Gift and ""Given Being"": The Libidinal Economies of Vernon Lee’s Supernatural Tales Jane Ford 6. The Aesthete, the Banker, and the Saint: Economies of Gift and Desire in Lucas Malet's The Far Horizon (1906) Catherine Delyfer Part III: Queer Performativity 7. Living Parody: Eric, Count Stenbock, and Decadent Performativity Matthew Bradley 8. Camp Aesthetics and Inequality: Baron Corvo’s Toto Stories Kristin Mahoney 9. ‘Our brains struck fire each from each’: Disidentification, Difference, and Desire in the Collaborative Aesthetics of Michael Field Jill R. Ehnenn

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Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siecle draws attention to the rich field of study available through examining literary mediations on the interactions between economy and desire at the end of the nineteenth century. This book is eminently readable, academically rigorous, and offers contributions to multiple disciplines. The collection invites further research with its enthusiastic and generous tone, and its idiosyncratic approach. - Louise Benson James, University of Bristol


Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Si�cle draws attention to the rich field of study available through examining literary mediations on the interactions between economy and desire at the end of the nineteenth century. This book is eminently readable, academically rigorous, and offers contributions to multiple disciplines. The collection invites further research with its enthusiastic and generous tone, and its idiosyncratic approach. - Louise Benson James, University of Bristol


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Jane Ford has taught across the undergraduate English Literature curriculum at the University of Portsmouth, UK and, more recently, Keele University, UK. Her current work focuses on metaphors of economic exploitation and domination in fin-de-siècle writing and she has written chapters and articles on Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford. Kim Edwards Keates is a sessional tutor at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has published in Dickens and Modernity, recently co-edited the Victorian Periodicals Review special issue, ""Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals"" (2015), and is Bibliographer (with Clare Horrocks) of Dickens Quarterly Patricia Pulham is Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is author of Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee’s Supernatural Tales (2008), and has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century writers including William Hazlitt, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Olive Custance. She has co-edited several collections of essays, most recently, ""Decadent Crossings"", a Special Issue of Symbiosis (October, 2012), and of a four-volume Routledge facsimile collection: Spiritualism, 1840-1930 published in 2013.

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