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Author Mendelssohn, Michèle.

Title Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture / Michèle Mendelssohn.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Mendelssohn places a discussion of aestheticism in an transatlantic context, centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Contents COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; INTRODUCTION; chapter 1 'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism; chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism; chapter 3 The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde's Impressions of James in Intentions and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
chapter 4 '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 Domvillechapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration; chapter 6 'A nest of almost infant blackmailers': The End of Innocence in 'The Turn of the Screw' and De Profundis; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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Subject James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Criticism and interpretation.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Aestheticism (Literature)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Mendelssohn, Michèle. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 9780748623853 074862385X (DLC) 2007408910 (OCoLC)86167669
Print version: Mendelssohn, Michèle. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 9780748623853 (DLC) 2007408910 (OCoLC)86167669
ISBN 9780748630219 (electronic book)
074863021X (electronic book)
1281252069
9781281252067
074862385X (Cloth)
9780748623853