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1 online resource. |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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JSTOR EBA.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense: Aestheticism to Decadence -- Part One: OSCAR WILDE. 2. 'That love-enraptured tune': Eros and Art(ifice); 3. 'Charmides' and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d'Art -- Part Two: ARTHUR SYMONS. 4. Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions; 5. Bianca's Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh -- Part Three: ERNEST DOWSON. 6. 'A Little While': Expiration in Suspension; 7. Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-encounter -- 8. Coda: Modernist Responses. |
| Summary |
This book examines systematically, for the first time, poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Ernest Dowson. It sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. This study examines Wilde's neglected early poetry and its role in triggering this shift. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons's poetry, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexing non-collisions. |
| Access |
Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945. |
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Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900. |
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Decadence (Literary movement) -- England.
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Decadence (Literary movement) |
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England. |
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
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19th century |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780748690923 0748690921 (OCoLC)909970310 |
| ISBN |
9780748690930 (electronic book) |
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074869093X (electronic book) |
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9780748690923 |
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0748690921 |
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9780748690947 |
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0748690948 |
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