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Title Willa Cather and aestheticism : from Romanticism to Modernism / edited by Sarah Cheney Watson and Ann Moseley.

Publication Info. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.

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Series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in memory of Merrill M. Skaggs
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in memory of Merrill M. Skaggs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : The "intrinsic beauty" of art / Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson. Part I : The aesthetic movement Exit smiling : the case for Paul's dandyism / Timothy W. Bintrim -- Innocence and experience, good and evil, and doppelgangers : decadent aesthetics in Cather's "Consequences," James's "The jolly corner," and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray / Sonja Froiland Lynch and Robert Lee Lynch -- Willa Cather's time machine : Alexander's bridge, H.G. Wells, and aesthetic temporality / Peter Betjemann -- Aestheticism and the dispossessed : Cather's dual Europe in America / Nicholas Birns -- Willa Cather's disenchanted epicurean : Godfrey St. Peter in The professor's house / Sarah Cheney Watson -- Part II : The visual arts Arts and crafts on Willa Cather's frontier / Leona Sevick -- Cather's "Twilight stage" : aestheticism, tonalism, and modernist sentiment / Joseph C. Murphy -- Willa Cather, the Nabi of Red Cloud / Mark Facknitz -- Blessed damsels, lost ladies, and Cather's real women / Angela Conrad -- Fernand Léger and Willa Cather's "Coming, Aphrodite!" / Jacqueline H. Harris -- Part III : Movement toward modernism "The nude had descended the staircase" : Katherine Anne Porter looks at Willa Cather looking at modern art / Janis P. Stout -- With the "hand, fastidious and bold" : bridging Walter Pater's aestheticism and Willa Cather's modernism / Olga Aksakalova -- From British aestheticism to American modernism : Cather's transforming vision / Jo Ann Middleton -- Part IV : Art and religion Willa Cather's sheltering art : Cather's cathedral and the Adams factor / John J. Murphy.
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Subject Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Aestheticism (Literature)
Romanticism -- United States.
Romanticism.
United States.
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Watson, Sarah Cheney, 1948-
Moseley, Watson and Ann, 1947-
Other Form: Print version: 9786613936998 (DLC) 2012010592
ISBN 9781611475128 (electronic book)
1611475120 (electronic book)
1611475112
9781611475111
1611476984
9781611476989
Standard No. 9786613936998