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The aesthetics of space in nineteenth-century British literature, 1843-1907 / Giles Whiteley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whiteley, Giles, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Aestheticism (Literature).
- Space in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Prologue Joris-Karl Huysmans, or ‘After Dickens’
- Introduction: The Spatial Turn
- Chapter 1 John Ruskin: Towards a Theoretics of Space
- Chapter 2 Charles Dickens: After Realism
- Chapter 3 Walter Pater: Towards an Aesthetics of Space
- Chapter 4 Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitan Space
- Chapter 5 Henry James: Modern Space
- Conclusion Unreal Cities – Towards Modernism
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-4374-5
- OCLC:
- 1277046257
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