Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Michele Mendelssohn

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 October 2014
Pages
328
ISBN
9780748697533

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Michele Mendelssohn

This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James’s and Oscar Wilde’s relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late 19th century’s most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise. Richly illustrated and historically detailed, this study of James’s and Wilde’s intricate, decades-long relationship brings to light Aestheticism’s truly transatlantic nature through close readings of both authors’ works, as well as 19th-century art, periodicals and rare manuscripts.

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