Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s: The Imperfect Wagnerites

By Emma Sutton

This volume is an interdisciplinary study of the influence of the operas, writing, and personality of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). In exploring Beardsley's often iconoclastic versions--or perversions--of Wagner's work Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagernism in the 1890s aims to investigate the role of Wagnerism with "fin-de-si?cle" British culture, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and contemporary decadence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198187327
• ISBN13: 9780198187325
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 5.6"