LEADER 04089nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910140573703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93598-4 010 $a9786612935985 010 $a1-4008-3280-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400832804 035 $a(CKB)2670000000028772 035 $a(EBL)537697 035 $a(OCoLC)692156954 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458064 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11325289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458064 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10422530 035 $a(PQKB)10561933 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537697 035 $a(OCoLC)715154054 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36528 035 $a(DE-B1597)446560 035 $a(OCoLC)979592899 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400832804 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537697 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448510 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293598 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000028772 100 $a20091003d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFateful beauty$b[electronic resource] $eaesthetic environments, juvenile development, and literature 1860-1960 /$fDouglas Mao 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14661-6 311 $a0-691-13348-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tINTRODUCTION. Talking about Beauty -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Stealthy Environments -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Aestheticism's Environments -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Aesthetics of Acuteness -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Tropisms of Longing -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Great House and Super-Cortex -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Growing Up Awry -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aWhen Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. Weaving together readings in literature, psychology, biology, philosophy, education, child-rearing advice, and interior design, he shows how this idea abetted a dramatic rise in attention to environment in many discourses and in many practices affecting the lives of the young between the late nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth. Through original and detailed analyses of Wilde, Walter Pater, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Rebecca West, and W. H. Auden, Mao shows that English-language writing of the period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that beautiful environments might produce better people. He also reveals how these writers shared concerns about environment, evolution, determinism, freedom, and beauty with scientists and social theorists such as Herbert Spencer, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and W.H.R. Rivers. In so doing, Mao challenges conventional views of the roles of beauty and the aesthetic in art and life during this time. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aLiterature$xAesthetics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society. 615 0$aLiterature$xAesthetics. 676 $a801/.93 700 $aMao$b Douglas$f1966-$01042027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140573703321 996 $aFateful beauty$92473728 997 $aUNINA