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Book SynopsisExtraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
Trade Review“[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 *
The Wildean *
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 Index
