LEADER 04552nam 22007211 450 001 9910812946503321 005 20120730151947.0 010 $a1-4725-4291-6 010 $a1-283-30767-7 010 $a9786613307675 010 $a1-4411-3001-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472542915 035 $a(CKB)2550000000057323 035 $a(EBL)793274 035 $a(OCoLC)758336032 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000533798 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12269937 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000533798 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10491850 035 $a(PQKB)11223108 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC793274 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL793274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10505735 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330767 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256716 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781472542915BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000057323 100 $a20140929d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAesthetic afterlives $eirony, literary modernity and the ends of beauty /$fAndrew Eastham 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 0 $aContinuum literary studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-1210-3 311 $a0-8264-4398-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [241]-250) and index. 327 $aList of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Walter Pater's Acoustic Space: 'The School of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, and the Politics of Soundscape -- 2. Aesthetic Vampirism: The Concept of Irony in the Work of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Vernon Lee -- 3. 'Master of Irony': Henry James, Transatlantic Bildung and the Critique of Aestheticism -- 4. Irony's Turn: The Redress of Aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks and Stories -- 5. Sacrificing Aestheticism: The Dialectic of Modernity and the Ends of Beauty in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love -- 6. Aristocracies of Mourning: The Reconsecration of Aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited -- 7. Sublime Ironies: The Remainders of Romanticism in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy and Krapp's Last Tape -- 8. Inoperative Ironies: Jamesian Aestheticism and Post-modern Culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty -- 9. The Aesthetic Afterlives of Mr W.P. : Reanimating Pater in Twenty-first-Century Fiction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $a"Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this study investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and its twentieth-century afterlives. Aesthetic Afterlives constructs a far-reaching theoretical narrative by positioning Victorian Aestheticism as the basis of Literary Modernity. Aestheticism's cultivation of irony and reflexive detachment was central to this legacy, but it was also the focus of its own self-critique. Anxieties about the concept and practice of irony persisted through Modernism, and have recently been positioned in Hollinghurst's work as a symptom of the political stasis within post-modern culture. Referring to the recent debates about the 'new aestheticism' and the politics of aesthetics, Eastham asks how a utopian Aestheticism can be reconstructed from the problematics of irony and aesthetic autonomy that haunted writers from Pater to Adorno."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aAestheticism (Literature) 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIrony in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $2Literary studies: from c 1900 - 615 0$aAestheticism (Literature) 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIrony in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a820.9/18 700 $aEastham$b Andrew$01620063 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812946503321 996 $aAesthetic afterlives$93952645 997 $aUNINA