Title: Reconnecting aestheticism and modernism : continuities, revisions, speculations /
Authors: Coste, Bénédicte,; Delyfer, Catherine,; Reynier, Christine,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature, Modern History and criticism; Aestheticism (Literature); Modernism (Literature); Aestheticism (Literature); Literature, Modern; Modernism (Literature)
Contents: Introduction -- Connecting aestheticism and modernism. The new woman flâneuse or streetwalker? George Egerton's urban aestheticism / Tina O'Toole -- Re-crediting Arthur Symons, decadent-modernist literary ghost / Elisa Bizzotto -- Modernists as decadents: excess and waste in G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and others / Rainer Emig -- From periphery to centre: the female writer in Walter Pater and Virginia Woolf / Lene Ostermark-Johansen -- Literary cosmopolitans and agents of mediation: Oscar Wilde and fin-de-siècle Viennese artistic networks / Sandra Mayer -- Revising assumptions about aestheticism and modernism. Wet aesthetics: immersion versus the "perfect imbecility" of the stream in Dorothy Richardson's pilgrimage / Rebecca Bowler and Scott McCracken -- Artist stories of the 1890s: life, art, and sacrifice / Elke D'hoker -- Aestheticism and utilitarianism: a Victorian debate and its critical legacy / Emmanuelle De Champs -- "Dangerous thoughts in Bloomsbury": ethical aestheticism and imperial fictions / Christine Froula -- Speculative orientations in aestheticism and modernism. Speculative modernism / Stephen Ross -- The modernist trajectory of economics / Mary Poovey -- Speculating on art in fin-de-siècle fiction / Catherine Delyfer -- Bogus modernism: impersonation, deception and trust in Ford Madox Ford and Evelyn Waugh / Rob Hawkes -- Ownership and interpretation: on Ezra Pound's deluxe first editions / Michael Kindellan.