By Michèle Mendelssohn
This booklet, the 1st totally sustained analyzing of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's courting, unearths why the antagonisms among either authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions inside of Aestheticism itself. The ebook additionally indicates how those conflicting energies lively the overdue 19th century's most enjoyable transatlantic cultural firm. Richly illustrated and traditionally unique, this learn of James's and Wilde's complicated, decades-long courting brings to gentle Aestheticism's really transatlantic nature via shut readings of either authors' works, in addition to nineteenth-century artwork, periodicals and infrequent manuscripts. As Mendelssohn indicates, either authors have been deeply encouraged by way of the visible and ornamental arts, and through modern artists akin to George Du Maurier and James McNeill Whistler. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic tradition bargains a nuanced analyzing of a posh courting that gives you to remodel the best way we think overdue nineteenth-century British and American literary culture.
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