The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907
Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of space
Discusses a hitherto under-researched tradition of city-writing, linking Ruskin to modernismReads comparatively five important mid to late nineteenth-century writersMarries close textual analysis with historically and geographically informed contextFills a gap in the critical literature on city-writing between realism and early modernism
Charting an ‘aesthetic’, post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin’s art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century. With chapters devoted to the ways in which aesthetic and decadent writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde built upon and challenged Ruskin’s ideas, the book links the late Dickens to the early modernism of Henry James. The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature gives a vibrant vision of what an aesthetically sensitive treatment of these spaces looked like during the period.

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The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907
Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of space
Discusses a hitherto under-researched tradition of city-writing, linking Ruskin to modernismReads comparatively five important mid to late nineteenth-century writersMarries close textual analysis with historically and geographically informed contextFills a gap in the critical literature on city-writing between realism and early modernism
Charting an ‘aesthetic’, post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin’s art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century. With chapters devoted to the ways in which aesthetic and decadent writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde built upon and challenged Ruskin’s ideas, the book links the late Dickens to the early modernism of Henry James. The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature gives a vibrant vision of what an aesthetically sensitive treatment of these spaces looked like during the period.

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The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907

The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907

by Giles Whiteley
The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907

The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907

by Giles Whiteley

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Overview

Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of space
Discusses a hitherto under-researched tradition of city-writing, linking Ruskin to modernismReads comparatively five important mid to late nineteenth-century writersMarries close textual analysis with historically and geographically informed contextFills a gap in the critical literature on city-writing between realism and early modernism
Charting an ‘aesthetic’, post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin’s art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century. With chapters devoted to the ways in which aesthetic and decadent writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde built upon and challenged Ruskin’s ideas, the book links the late Dickens to the early modernism of Henry James. The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature gives a vibrant vision of what an aesthetically sensitive treatment of these spaces looked like during the period.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474443739
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 03/03/2022
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Giles Whiteley is Professor of English Literature at Stockholm University. He has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, with a particular focus on the movement of aestheticism and decadence, including work on key figures such as Wilde, Huysmans and Pater, as well as writing frequently on Dickens. He is the author of four monographs to date: Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death (2010), which was nominated by the BCLA for the Balakian Prize, Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum (2015), Schelling’s Reception in Nineteenth Century British Literature (2018), and, most recently, The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907 (EUP, 2020).

Table of Contents

Prologue: Joris-Karl Huysmans, or ‘After Dickens’Introduction: The Spatial Turn

1. John Ruskin: Towards a Theoretics of Space

2. Charles Dickens: After Realism

3. Walter Pater: Towards an Aesthetics of Space

4. Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitan Space

5. Henry James: Modern Space

Conclusion: Unreal Cities: Towards ModernismIndex

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The Aesthetics of Space is a remarkable study of the urban entanglements of modern aesthetics, realism, and decadence. In this destabilising intervention into the study of nineteenth-century urban space, Whiteley demonstrates that life often imitates the most disturbing of arts and that reality is defined by the contours of our psychological landscapes.

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