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Author Eastham, Andrew.

Title Aesthetic afterlives [electronic resource] : literary modernity and the concept of irony / Andrew Eastham.

Imprint London ; New York : Continuum, c2011.

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Description ix, 257 p.
Series Continuum literary studies
Continuum literary studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Walter Pater's acoustic space: 'the school of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, and the politics of soundscape -- Aesthetic vampirism: Pater, Wilde, and the concept of irony -- 'Master of irony': Henry James, transatlantic bildung and the critique of aestheticism -- Irony's turn: the redress of aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's notebooks and stories -- Sacrificing aestheticism: irony and the dialectics of modernity in D.H. Lawrence's The rainbow and Women in love -- Aristocracies of mourning: re-consecrating aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited -- Sublime ironies: Samuel Becket and the remainders of romanticism -- Inoperative ironies: Jamesian aestheticism and post-modern culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- The aesthetic afterlives of Mr W.P.: reanimating Pater in twenty first century fiction.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Irony in literature.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780826443984
9781441130013 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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