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Oscar Wilde's America : Counterculture in the Gilded Age by Mary Warner Blanchard (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300074603
ISBN-139780300074604
eBay Product ID (ePID)430308
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameOscar Wilde's America : Counterculture in the Gilded Age
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, General, Aesthetics, History / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
AuthorMary Warner Blanchard
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight33.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN97-039628
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700/.973/09034
SynopsisIn 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the Apostle of Aestheticism, his wit and brilliance and deliberate outrageousness creating controversy among audiences across the continent. The America visited by Wilde was a nation still badly shaken by the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this atmosphere Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to many Americans to open new horizons of social possibility. In this book, a cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard provides an account of a neglected dimension of American history. Blanchard shows that the aestheticism was a wide-ranging popular movement, implemented by an array of tastemakers, resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism. She constructs the lives of the female visionaries who used the decorative arts to assault the conventions of middle-class milieu and to advance in the social and business worlds of the Gilded Age.
LC Classification NumberNX503.7.B59 1998
