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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph BristowPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Volume: 32 Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.740kg ISBN: 9781487546083ISBN 10: 1487546084 Pages: 394 Publication Date: 12 April 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback 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 Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Joseph Bristow Part One: New Women, Female Aesthetes, and the Emergence of Decadence 1. Impressionistic Photography and the flâneuse in Amy Levy’s Romance of a Shop S. Brooke Cameron 2. The Decay of Marriage in Ella D’Arcy’s Decadent New Woman Fiction Kate Krueger 3. Mabel Dearmer’s Decadent Way Diana Maltz Part Two: Femininity, Masculinity, and Fin-de-Siècle Aesthetics 4. “So much too little”: Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, and the Question of Influence Beth Newman 5. Richard Le Gallienne and the Rhymers: Masculine Minority in the 1890s Emily Harrington 6. Max Beerbohm’s “Improved” Intentions by Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetics of Cosmesis Megan Becker Part Three: Women, Babies, Moons – 1890s Poetics 7. Dollie Radford and the Case of the Disappearing Babies Julie Wise 8. “She hath no air”: Mary Coleridge’s Moon Kasey Bass Part Four: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Modern Age 9. Radical Empathy in Dora Sigerson’s Fairy Changeling and Broadside Poems of 1916–17 So Young Park 10. The Boom in Yellow: The Afterlife of the 1890s Kristin Mahoney Contributors IndexReviewsAesthetes were never ordinary, and this collection is filled with scholarship that demonstrates just how breathtakingly unconventional and creative they could be. So the volume itself is extraordinary. Joseph Bristow has assembled essays that live up to their subjects by successfully crossing disciplinary and other divides, celebrating art that astonishes, and turning criticism into something that is - to paraphrase Wilde's Gwendolen Fairfax - not a duty to read but a pleasure. - Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware The most rewarding and timely achievement of Extraordinary Aesthetes is that it restores the defining role played by women writers in shaping the culture of the 1890s, a turning point in modern literary history. The essays in this volume - several of them beautifully illustrated - are full of unfamiliar stories and archival discoveries that open up new perspectives on the literature of aestheticism, gender, and the visual. - Stefano Evangelista, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Oxford University This beautifully edited collection is testimony to the scholarship that continues to flourish on the work of Decadents, as well as women writers and artists at the fin de siecle. Extraordinary Aesthetes shines light on the contribution of lesser-known figures like Mabel Dearmer, Mary Coleridge, and Dora Sigerson and broadens our understanding of persistent Decadent sensibilities in the early twentieth century. - Jane Desmarais, Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London This extraordinary collection of essays persuasively demonstrates that the 1890s was and was not the period articulated for us in the twentieth century. It works across disciplines as authors discuss disappearing babies, feminine ennui, the moon, or the 'improved' personal books by Max Beerbohm, alongside national politics and artistic media, such as photography or illustrations. Devilishly beautiful and beautifully written, Extraordinary Aesthetes shows us a new vision for an altogether different fin de siecle and its twentieth-century yellow bloom. - Ana Parejo Vadillo, Reader of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London “[Extraordinary Aesthetes] is rich in material and interpretation and introduces the reader to aspects of cultural and literary life at the end of the nineteenth century, which will certainly enrich any previous studies and encourage further reading. Bristow’s mission to extend and transform his cited key texts is successfully achieved.” -- Miriam al Jamil * <em>The Wildean</em> * """Aesthetes were never ordinary, and this collection is filled with scholarship that demonstrates just how breathtakingly unconventional and creative they could be. So the volume itself is extraordinary. Joseph Bristow has assembled essays that live up to their subjects by successfully crossing disciplinary and other divides, celebrating art that astonishes, and turning criticism into something that is - to paraphrase Wilde's Gwendolen Fairfax - not a duty to read but a pleasure."" - Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware ""The most rewarding and timely achievement of Extraordinary Aesthetes is that it restores the defining role played by women writers in shaping the culture of the 1890s, a turning point in modern literary history. The essays in this volume - several of them beautifully illustrated - are full of unfamiliar stories and archival discoveries that open up new perspectives on the literature of aestheticism, gender, and the visual."" - Stefano Evangelista, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Oxford University ""This beautifully edited collection is testimony to the scholarship that continues to flourish on the work of Decadents, as well as women writers and artists at the fin de siècle. Extraordinary Aesthetes shines light on the contribution of lesser-known figures like Mabel Dearmer, Mary Coleridge, and Dora Sigerson and broadens our understanding of persistent Decadent sensibilities in the early twentieth century."" - Jane Desmarais, Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London ""This extraordinary collection of essays persuasively demonstrates that the 1890s was and was not the period articulated for us in the twentieth century. It works across disciplines as authors discuss disappearing babies, feminine ennui, the moon, or the 'improved' personal books by Max Beerbohm, alongside national politics and artistic media, such as photography or illustrations. Devilishly beautiful and beautifully written, Extraordinary Aesthetes shows us a new vision for an altogether different fin de siècle and its twentieth-century yellow bloom."" - Ana Parejo Vadillo, Reader of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London" Author InformationJoseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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