Masking the text
Subtitle: essays on literature & mediation in the 1890s
By: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: Rivendale Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: High Wycombe, Bucks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781904201144
Other titles: Essays on literature and mediation in the 1890s
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mediating the text. Gathering the fragments : the collector as literary medium ; Forgery as a means of knowing : Oscar Wilde's The portrait of Mr. W.H. as a liar's manifesto ; Incarnating the poetry of painting : on verse as art-object in Michael Field's Sight and song ; the typewritten self : media technology and identity in Oscar Wilde's De profundis; title: Literature & the medium of the book. The Books of the Rhymers club as material texts ; Poem, book, habitat : the world of George Meredith's poetry ; Aubrey Beardsley embroiders the literary text ; Invisible illustration : envisioning beauty in Oscar Wilde's A house of pomegranates ; James McNeill Whistler and the politics of the page ; A "thing most to be longed for" : William Morris's textual paradise.