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Aestheticism and the Femme Fatale

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Product Code: 9781982082123
ISBN13: 9781982082123
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Aestheticism and the Femme Fatale charts the development of a figure that came to dominate the nineteenth century aesthetic imagination: that of the cruel and beautiful woman, the femme fatale. This study documents the rise of a "masochist aesthetic," one that enabled several generations of Victorian artists and writers to liberate their aesthetic production from the strictures of a utilitarian, patriarchal critical culture. Drawing upon a variety of critical approaches, the author establishes the centrality of the image of the femme fatale in the works of Rossetti, Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, and others, unveiling the ways in which the aesthetics of domination and desire lay the groundwork for modern conceptions of artistic value.

Author: Christoph Greger
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: Feb 03, 2018
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1982082127
ISBN-13: 9781982082123

Aestheticism and the Femme Fatale

$12.59
 
Aestheticism and the Femme Fatale charts the development of a figure that came to dominate the nineteenth century aesthetic imagination: that of the cruel and beautiful woman, the femme fatale. This study documents the rise of a "masochist aesthetic," one that enabled several generations of Victorian artists and writers to liberate their aesthetic production from the strictures of a utilitarian, patriarchal critical culture. Drawing upon a variety of critical approaches, the author establishes the centrality of the image of the femme fatale in the works of Rossetti, Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, and others, unveiling the ways in which the aesthetics of domination and desire lay the groundwork for modern conceptions of artistic value.

Author: Christoph Greger
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: Feb 03, 2018
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1982082127
ISBN-13: 9781982082123
 

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