The Resource The forgotten female aesthetes : literary culture in late-Victorian England, Talia Schaffer
The forgotten female aesthetes : literary culture in late-Victorian England, Talia Schaffer
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- Summary
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- "Most critics of aestheticism focus on the Yellow Book, the glossy Victorian journal with the shocking yellow cover that counted among its contributors Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm. But one of the best-known aesthetes, Oscar Wilde, launched his own magazine, the Woman's World. The audience for Wilde's magazine reveals another side of the aesthetic movement that has been largely forgotten
- Every now-canonical male aesthete once competed with what Talia Schaffer calls the female aesthetes, whose critical and popular success made them formidable contemporaries. Not only did these women make significant contributions to the development of feminist ideologies; they pioneered new literary strategies that were incorporated by their canonical successors
- Schaffer analyzes writers who have never been considered together, including Lucas Malet (Mary Harrison), Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Una Ashworth Taylor, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Mary and Jane Findlater, and John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Craigie). These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them--the New Woman and the Angel in the House. They developed plots, ideas, and styles that would later be adopted, parodied, or revised by canonical writers such as Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James. They used the "pretty" language of aestheticism as a strategic cover behind which they could attempt radical experiments, many of which prefigure modernist innovations."--pub. desc
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 298 p.
- Contents
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- The women's world of British aestheticism
- A love of paradox will lead you far: the nonrealist genres of female aestheticism
- "Not at all unakin to that homespun cult": the domestic craftswoman and the aesthetic connoisseur
- The dandy in the house: Ouida and the origin of the aesthetic novel
- The angel in Hyde Park: Alice Meynell's "unstable equilibrium"
- Malet the obscure
- Postscript: haunting modernism
- Isbn
- 9780813919362
- Label
- The forgotten female aesthetes : literary culture in late-Victorian England
- Title
- The forgotten female aesthetes
- Title remainder
- literary culture in late-Victorian England
- Statement of responsibility
- Talia Schaffer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "Most critics of aestheticism focus on the Yellow Book, the glossy Victorian journal with the shocking yellow cover that counted among its contributors Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm. But one of the best-known aesthetes, Oscar Wilde, launched his own magazine, the Woman's World. The audience for Wilde's magazine reveals another side of the aesthetic movement that has been largely forgotten
- Every now-canonical male aesthete once competed with what Talia Schaffer calls the female aesthetes, whose critical and popular success made them formidable contemporaries. Not only did these women make significant contributions to the development of feminist ideologies; they pioneered new literary strategies that were incorporated by their canonical successors
- Schaffer analyzes writers who have never been considered together, including Lucas Malet (Mary Harrison), Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Una Ashworth Taylor, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Mary and Jane Findlater, and John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Craigie). These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them--the New Woman and the Angel in the House. They developed plots, ideas, and styles that would later be adopted, parodied, or revised by canonical writers such as Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James. They used the "pretty" language of aestheticism as a strategic cover behind which they could attempt radical experiments, many of which prefigure modernist innovations."--pub. desc
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schaffer, Talia
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
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- English literature
- Aestheticism (Literature)
- Women and literature
- English literature
- Label
- The forgotten female aesthetes : literary culture in late-Victorian England, Talia Schaffer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index
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- The women's world of British aestheticism -- A love of paradox will lead you far: the nonrealist genres of female aestheticism -- "Not at all unakin to that homespun cult": the domestic craftswoman and the aesthetic connoisseur -- The dandy in the house: Ouida and the origin of the aesthetic novel -- The angel in Hyde Park: Alice Meynell's "unstable equilibrium" -- Malet the obscure -- Postscript: haunting modernism
- Control code
- ocm42652612
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 298 p.
- Isbn
- 9780813919362
- Lccn
- 99051322
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The forgotten female aesthetes : literary culture in late-Victorian England, Talia Schaffer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The women's world of British aestheticism -- A love of paradox will lead you far: the nonrealist genres of female aestheticism -- "Not at all unakin to that homespun cult": the domestic craftswoman and the aesthetic connoisseur -- The dandy in the house: Ouida and the origin of the aesthetic novel -- The angel in Hyde Park: Alice Meynell's "unstable equilibrium" -- Malet the obscure -- Postscript: haunting modernism
- Control code
- ocm42652612
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 298 p.
- Isbn
- 9780813919362
- Lccn
- 99051322
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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