Economies of desire at the Victorian fin de siecle
Subtitle: libidinal lives
By: edited by Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham
Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature -- 16
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781138826342; 9781315739373
Subjects: English literature; Desire in literature; Literature and society; Economics in literature; History and criticism; Sex in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ariculating desire. Always leave them wanting more: Oscar Wilde's Salome and the failed circulations of desire / Ruth Robbins; title: A.E. Housman's Ballad economies / Veronica Alfano; title: Perfume clouds: olfaction, memory, and desire in Arthur Symons's London nights / Jane Desmarais; title: Human currencies. Urban economies and the dead-woman muse in the poetry of Amy Levy and Djuna Barnes / Sarah Parker; title: Greek gift and "given being": the libidinal economies of Vernon Lee's Supernatural tales / Jane Ford; title: The aesthete, the banker, and the saint: economies of gift and desire in Lucas Malet's The far horizon / Catherine Delyfer; title: Queer performativity. Living parody: Eric, Count Stenbock, and decadent performativity / Matthew Bradley; title: Camp aesthetics and inequality: Baron Corvo's Toto stories / Kristin Mahoney; title: "Our brains struck fire each from each": disidentification, difference, and desire in the collaborative aesthetics of Michael Field / Jill R. Ehnenn.