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BL
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700014
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b522203
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| Main Entry
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Eastham, Andrew
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| Title & Author
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Aesthetic afterlives : : irony, literary modernity and the ends of beauty /\ Andrew Eastham
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, c2011
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| Series Statement
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Continuum literary studies
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| Page. NO
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ix, 257 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0826443982
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: 9780826443984
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Walter Pater's acoustic space: 'the school of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, and the politics of soundscape -- Aesthetic vampirism: Pater, Wilde, and the concept of irony -- 'Master of irony': Henry James, transatlantic bildung and the critique of aestheticism -- Irony's turn: the redress of aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's notebooks and stories -- Sacrificing aestheticism: irony and the dialectics of modernity in D.H. Lawrence's The rainbow and Women in love -- Aristocracies of mourning: re-consecrating aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited -- Sublime ironies: Samuel Becket and the remainders of romanticism -- Inoperative ironies: Jamesian aestheticism and post-modern culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- The aesthetic afterlives of Mr W.P.: reanimating Pater in twenty first century fiction
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Aestheticism (Literature)
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Irony in literature
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/18
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PR468.A33E27 2011
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