Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience

by Jessica R. Feldman

Overview

Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist's light on the relationship between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Feldman examines the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist)and William James (philosopher and psychologist) and relates them to select twentieth-century creations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521120906
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2009
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jessica Feldman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature (1993).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. A sweet continuance: John Ruskin's Victorian Modernism; 3. Arrangements: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Victorian Modernism; 4. Recondite analogies: Augusta Evans' Victorian Modernism; 5. Positions of repose: William James' Victorian Modernism; 6. Afterword; Notes; Index.

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"[T]his is a thought-provoking study. Highly recommended." Choice

"Deft and winning." Studies in English Literature

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