In the Nineties

by John Stokes

Book Overview

John Stokes's lively study is an exercise in interdisciplinary criticism inspired by the decade it observes, the decade of Wilde, Shaw, Beardsley, and Sickert. No longer dismissed as merely transitional between the Victorian and the Modern, the 1890s have now come to be recognized as unique--a period of dramatic engagement between high culture and popular forms, one medium and another, art and life.

Spurning fixed boundaries, Stokes relates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226775380
• ISBN13: 9780226775388
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"