Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

by Michèle Mendelssohn

Book Overview

Challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and morality

This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748697535
• ISBN13: 9780748697533
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"