Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940

Author: Dennis Denisoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-03-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780521024891

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This original and provocative 2001 study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting Victorian popular culture, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds an important dimension to the theorisations of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert's drama and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood's prose to George du Maurier's cartoons and Max Beerbohm's caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the parodies' interactions with the personae and texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. In doing so, he considers the impact that these interactions had on modern ideas of gender, sexuality, taste and politics.

The Literary 1880s
The Literary 1880s

Author: Penny Fielding

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1107181909

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Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Before Queer Theory
Before Queer Theory

Author: Dustin Friedman

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1421431475

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Before Queer Theory is an audacious reimagining that will appeal to scholars with interests in Victorian studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and art history.

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Author: Michele Mendelssohn

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0748697543

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This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Legacies of Romanticism
Legacies of Romanticism

Author: Carmen Casaliggi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1136273492

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This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The authors consider the changing notion of Romanticism, looking at the diversity of its writers, the applicability of the term, and the ways in which Romanticism has been reconstituted. The chapters cover relevant historical periods and literary trends, including the Romantic Gothic, the Victorian era, and Modernism as part of a dialectical response to the Romantic legacy. Contributors also examine how Romanticism has been reconstituted within postmodern and postcolonial literature as both a reassessment of the Modernist critique and of the imperial contexts that have throughout this time-frame underpinned the Romantic legacy, bringing into focus the contemporaneity of Romanticism and its political legacy. This collection reveals the diversity and continuing relevance of the genre in new and exciting ways, offering insights into writers such as Browning, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Lewis, MacNeice, and Auster.

Decadence in the Age of Modernism
Decadence in the Age of Modernism

Author: Kate Hext

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 142142942X

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Contributors: Howard J. Booth, Joseph Bristow, Ellen Crowell, Nick Freeman, Ellis Hanson, Kate Hext, Kirsten MacLeod, Kristin Mahoney, Douglas Mao, Michèle Mendelssohn, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Vincent Sherry

"The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600?010 "

Author: Julia Skelly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1351539744

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Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of ?excess? has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this collection examines the discursive construction of excess in relation to art, material goods and people in various global contexts. The contributors illuminate how excess has been perceived, quantified and constructed, revealing in the process how beliefs about excess have changed over time and how they have remained consistent. The collection as a whole underscores the fact that the concept of excess must always be considered critically, whether in scholarship or in lived experience. Although the idea of excess has often been used to shame and degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning, transgression and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material, including diamonds, ceramics, paintings, dollhouses, caricatures, interior design and theatrical performances. Each case study sheds new light on how excess was used in a specific cultural context, including canonical sites of study such as the Netherlands in the eighteenth century, Victorian Britain and Paris in the 1920s, and under-studied contexts such as Canada and Sweden.

Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music
Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

Author: Doris Leibetseder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 131707257X

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Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality, and dildo. Based on a constructivist concept of gender, Leibetseder asks: ’Which queer-feminist strategies are used in rock and pop music?’ ’How do they function?’ ’Where do they occur?’ Leibetseder's methodological process is to discover subversive strategies in queer theory, which are also used in rock and pop music, without assuming that these tactics were first invented in theory. Furthermore, this book explains where exactly the subversiveness is situated in those strategies and in popular music. With the help of a new kind of knowledge transfer the author combines sociological and cultural theories with practical examples of rock and pop music. The subversive character of these queer motifs is shown in the work of contemporary popular musicians and is at the same time related to classical discourses of the humanities. Queer Tracks is a revised translation of Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in Rock- und Popmusik, originally published in German.

English Literary Sexology
English Literary Sexology

Author: H. Bauer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-04-30

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0230234089

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It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries.

The Literate Eye
The Literate Eye

Author: Rachel Teukolsky

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0195381378

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Rather than focusing on German philosophy or the French avant-gardes, as many books on the history of aesthetics do, Teukolsky takes up British responses to modern art controversies, thus providing a unique view on the development of artistic forms and art history. She considers the canonical writing of authors like John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde alongside texts belonging to the rich field of Victorian print culture--gallery reviews, scientific treatises, satirical cartoons, advertisements, and early photography monographs among them. Spanning the years 1840 to 1910, her argument also adds substance to our understanding of the transition from Victorianism to modernism, a period of especially lively exchange between artists and intellectuals, here narrated with careful attention given to the historical particularities and real events that stamped their imprint on such interactions.