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Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age

Door Mary Warner Blanchard

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#320930-XA6
Titel	Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age
Auteur	Blanchard, Mary Warner
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	0300074603
ISBN13	9780300074604
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, large 8vo.
Samenvatting	In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the Apostle of Aestheticism , his wit and brilliance and deliberate outrageousness creating controversy among audiences across the continent. The America visited by Wilde was a nation still badly shaken by the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this atmosphere Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to many Americans to open new horizons of social possibility. In this book, a cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard provides an account of a neglected dimension of American history. Blanchard shows that the aestheticism was a wide-ranging popular movement, implemented by an array of tastemakers, resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism. She constructs the lives of the fe... (Lees verder)male visionaries who used the decorative arts to assault the conventions of middle-class milieu and to advance in the social and business worlds of the Gilded Age. She also shows how the movement allowed new forms of identity for men - in particular feminized or homosexual roles that were profoundly at odds with Victorian notions of manliness. Drawing on evidence from material culture, popular media, and history and literature, Blanchard reveals aestheticism as an oppositional movement in the American Gilded Age.
Pagina's	302
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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