Research Catalog

Title

Extraordinary aesthetes : decadents, new women, and fin-de-siècle culture / edited by Joseph Bristow.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bristow, Joseph
• University of Toronto. Press, publisher.

Description

xiii, 377 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 24 cm.

Summary

"The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn toward modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp's radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D'Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, the Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women's writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle."--

Series Statement

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series 32

Uniform Title

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 32.

Alternative Title

Decadents, new women, and fin-de-siècle culture

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Aesthetic movement (Art) > Great Britain
• Aestheticism (Literature)
• Decadence (Literary movement) > Great Britain
• Women artists > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Women authors, English > 19th century
• Women authors, Irish > 19th century
• Women authors, Scottish > 19th century
• Aesthetic movement (Art)
• Decadence (Literary movement)
• Women artists
• Women authors, English
• Women authors, Irish
• Women authors, Scottish
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Call Number

JQE 24-529

ISBN

• 9781487546083
• 1487546084
• 9781487546090 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781487546106 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023279360

OCLC

1348634249

Title

Extraordinary aesthetes : decadents, new women, and fin-de-siècle culture / edited by Joseph Bristow.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series 32

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 32.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Bristow, Joseph, editor, author of introduction.

University of Toronto. Press, publisher.

Other Form:

Online version: Extraordinary aesthetes. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2023 1487546092 9781487546090 (OCoLC)1351435130

Research Call Number

JQE 24-529