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Aesthetic afterlives : irony, literary modernity and the ends of beauty
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- Creator
- Andrew Eastham
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
- ©2011
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- ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1472542916, 1472512103, 9780826443984, 1441130012, 0826443982, 9786613307675, 1283307677
- OCLC
- ocn758336032, ocn657602688
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-250) and index.
- 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