Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture / Michele Mendelssohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendelssohn, Michèle.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

James, Henry.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilde, Oscar.

Aestheticism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Places a discussion of aestheticism in a transatlantic context centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde.

Contents:

'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the politics of transatlantic aestheticism

The gentle art of making enemies and of remaking aestheticism

The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde's impressions of James in Intentions and The picture of Dorian Gray

'Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can't tell you

words I can't speak!': the drama of identity in The importance of being earnest and Guy Domville

Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde trials and interior decoration

'A nest of almost infant blackmailers': the end of innocence in The turn of the screw and De profundis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-297) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5163-2

1-281-25206-9

9786611252069

0-7486-3021-X

OCLC:

437203017