UID:
almafu_9959231556502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7486-5163-2
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1-281-25206-9
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9786611252069
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0-7486-3021-X
Series Statement:
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Content:
Places a discussion of aestheticism in a transatlantic context centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the politics of transatlantic aestheticism -- The gentle art of making enemies and of remaking aestheticism -- The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde's impressions of James in Intentions and The picture of Dorian Gray -- '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 Domville -- Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde trials and interior decoration -- 'A nest of almost infant blackmailers': the end of innocence in The turn of the screw and De profundis.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-9753-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-2385-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748630219
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