Title: Professions of taste: Henry James, British aestheticism, and commodity culture
Abstract:The author traces Henry James's career-long encounter with the tradition of British aestheticism and places both in the context of the late nineteenth century's professionalisation and commodification...The author traces Henry James's career-long encounter with the tradition of British aestheticism and places both in the context of the late nineteenth century's professionalisation and commodification of literary life. Professions of Taste reopens the question of later James in a new fashion and with a new perspective. A richer genealogy of modernism, and indeed postmodernism, begins to take shape, in which both the problematics of British aestheticism and James's relations with it play an important role. This book enlightens our understanding of the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fertilised the aestheticist breeding grounds of Anglo-American modernism.Read More
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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