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Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Wilhelm

Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture


Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-46935-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

ISBN: 978-1-009-46935-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press


The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and utility and rallied under the banner of 'art for art's sake', are often associated with hedonism and purposelessness. However, as Lindsay Wilhelm shows, aestheticism may have been more closely related to nineteenth-century ideas of progress and scientific advancement than we think. This book illuminates an important intellectual alliance between aestheticism and evolutionism in late-nineteenth-century Britain, putting aesthetic writers such as Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater into dialogue with scientific thinkers such as Darwin and mathematician W. K. Clifford. Considering in particular how Aestheticism and scientific thinking converged on utopian ideas about beauty, Lindsay Wilhelm reveals how this evolutionary aestheticism crucially shaped Victorian debates about individual pleasure and social progress that continue to resonate today.

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1. On the origin of evolutionary aesthetics; 2. Evolution, secular reverence, and the rise of aestheticism; 3. The Utopian (r)evolutionism of Grant Allen and Oscar Wilde; 4. Art for the sake of life: 'life-enhancing' aesthetics in the Fin de Siècle; 5. Taste and cultural progress in Bloomsbury and beyond; Coda: the critic as prophet.


Wilhelm, Lindsay
Lindsay Wilhelm is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University. Her major research and teaching interests include aestheticism and decadence, literature and science, and the Victorian Pacific. She has published articles on these and related topics in Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the LA Review of Books, and other venues.



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