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Titre: The Forgotten Female Aesthetes Condition: Neuf Sous titres: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England Auteur: Talia Schaffer Format: Relié EAN: 9780813919362 ISBN: 9780813919362 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Genre: Literary Criticism Sujet: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Philosophy & Spirituality Date de publication: 2000-04-29 Description: Every non-canonical male aesthete in Victorian England once competed with what Talia Schaffer calls the female aesthetes, whose critical and popular success made them formidable contemporaries. Not only did these women make significant contributions to the development of feminist ideologies, they pioneered new literary strategies that were incorporated by their canonical successors. In this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet (Mary Harrison), Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee), Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Una Ashworth Taylor, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Mary and Jane Findlater, and John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Craigie). These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House. They developed plots, ideas, and styles that would later be adopted, parodied, or revised by canonical writers such as Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. They used the ""pretty"" language of aestheticism as a strategic cover behind which they could attempt radical experiments, many of which prefigure modernist innovations. Talia Schaffer hopes that recovering the lost work of the female aesthetes will force us to reconsider the central tenets of late-Victorian literary theory. Sujet: Anglais Pays/Région de fabrication: US Série: Victorian Literature & Culture Année de publication: 2000 Information manquante?
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