Aesthetic Lives:
‘New experiences, new subjects of poetry, new forms of art’




Published 15 August 2013

Hardbound: 15.6 x 23.4 cm.,
217 pp.

ISBN 978 1 904201 23 6
£30.00 / $45.00

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Aesthetic Lives:
‘New experiences, new subjects of poetry, new forms of art’


edited by Bénédicte Coste and Catherine Delyfer


Introduction: bénédicte coste and catherine delyfer

looking into aestheticism

Chapter One:
pamela gerrish nunn
‘A Plaited Rope: Aestheticism’s Debt to Pre-Raphaelitism’

Chapter Two:
lorraine janzen kooistra
‘Materialising the Word: Aestheticism and the Art of the Book’

Chapter Three:
gabriella bologna
‘The Aesthetics of British Pictorial Photography. A Case Study: James Craig Annan’s Portfolio Venice and Lombardy. A Series of Original Photogravures’

living aesthetically: fashioning the interior, designing the self

Chapter Four:
lene østermark-johansen
‘Paterian Interiors’

Chapter Five:
richard w. hayes
‘Oscar Wilde, E.W. Godwin, and the Role of Criticism in Aestheticism’

Chapter Six:
wendy parkins
‘The Aesthetic Self-Formation of Jane Morris’

Chapter Seven:
stefano maria evangelista
‘Ouida’s Pulsations: Sensation and Aestheticism’

representing aestheticism

Chapter Eight:
joseph bristow
‘Wilde’s Aestheticism and Emergent Modernism in the New Age’

Chapter Nine:
julie sauvage
‘Choose Your Camp! Or Angela Carter’s Feminist Use of Camp and Aestheticism’


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