Aesthetic afterlives : irony, literary modernity and the ends of beauty /
Eastham, Andrew.
London : Continuum,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.
Walter Pater's acoustic space: 'the school of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, and the politics of soundscape -- Aesthetic vampirism: Pater, Wilde, and the concept of irony -- 'Master of irony': Henry James, transatlantic bildung and the critique of aestheticism -- Irony's turn: the redress of aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's notebooks and stories -- Sacrificing aestheticism: irony and the dialectics of modernity in D.H. Lawrence's The rainbow and Women in love -- Aristocracies of mourning: re-consecrating aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited -- Sublime ironies: Samuel Becket and the remainders of romanticism -- Inoperative ironies: Jamesian aestheticism and post-modern culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- The aesthetic afterlives of Mr W.P.: reanimating Pater in twenty first century fiction.
English literature
Aestheticism (Literature)
Irony in literature.
English literature
Modernism (Literature)