Bénédicte Coste, Catherine Delyfer and Christine Reynier, Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism

Over the last few years scholars have found ingenious new ways of bridging the gap between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is still such a dominant, awkward feature of Anglophone literary studies. Kristin Mahoney’s Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, Vincent Sherry’...

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Published inCahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens (Online) no. 86; pp. 1 - 3
Main Author Evangelista, Stefano
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 04.12.2017
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
Subjects
aestheticism
Aesthetics
Allusion
Authorship
Coste, Benedicte
Delyfer, Catherine
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary influences
Literature
Modernism
Narrative techniques
Nonfiction
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
Publishing
Publishing industry
Reynier, Christine
Short stories
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
Writers
New York
United States > US
Europe
esthétisme
modernism
aestheticism
modernisme
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Summary:Over the last few years scholars have found ingenious new ways of bridging the gap between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is still such a dominant, awkward feature of Anglophone literary studies. Kristin Mahoney’s Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, Vincent Sherry’s Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence and a forthcoming collection edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray all set out to argue that the legacy of the fin de siècle was a determining factor in h...
ISSN:0220-5610
2271-6149
DOI:10.4000/cve.3432