Art and life in aestheticism
Subtitle: de-humanizing and re-humanizing art, the artist, and the artistic receptor
By: edited by Kelly Comfort.
Contributors: Comfort, Kelly, 1975-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Aestheticism (Literature); Art and literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Art -- Philosophy; Literature -- Philosophy; Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reflections on the relationship between the art and life in aestheticism / Kelly Comfort; title: The critic as cosmopolite : Baudelaire's international sensibility and the transformation of viewer subjectivity / Margueritte Murphy; title: Rossetti's aesthetically saturated readings : art's de-humanizing power / Ileana Marin; title: Dickens' la carte : aesthetic victualism and the invigoration of the artist in Huysmans' Against nature / Paul Fox; title: Aesthetic vampirism : Pater, Wilde, and the irony of the modern object / Andrew Eastham; title: The de-humanization of the artistic receptor : the George Circle's rejection of Paterian aestheticism / Yvonne Ivory; title: Art for the body's sake : Nietzsche's physical aestheticism / Kael Ashbaugh; title: From "God of the creation" to "hangman God" : Joyce's re-assessment of aestheticism / Daniel M. Shea; title: The aesthetic anxiety : avant-garde poetics, autonomous aesthetics, and the idea of politics / Robert Archambeau; title: On the Cold War, American aestheticism, the Nabokov problem and me / Gene H. Bell-Villada; title: Beauty by damned : or why Adorno valorizes carrion, stench, and putrefaction / Charles B. Sumner; title: "This temptation to be undone" : Sontag, Barthes, and the uses of style / Sarah Garland; title: Art for heart's sake : the aesthetic existences of Kierkegaard, Pater, and Iser / Ben De Bruyn.