Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity CultureStanford University Press, 1990 - 305 páginas The author traces Henry James's career-long encounter with the tradition of British aestheticism and places both in the context of the late-19th-century's professionalization and commodification of literary life. Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer genealogy of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role. This book aims to enlighten the reader's understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilized the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism. |
Contenido
The Embrace of Contraries | 1 |
British Aestheticism and American Culture | 79 |
James Pater and the Discovery of Aestheticism | 133 |
James Wilde and the Incorporation of Aestheticism | 167 |
British Aestheticism and | 202 |
Notes | 261 |
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Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture Jonathan Freedman,Jonathan L. Freedman Sin vista previa disponible - 1990 |
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