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A collection of essays on the women novelists, poets, fiction writers, essayists and critics who played a central and long-forgotten role in the history of aest

In Dressed as in a Painting, Kimberly Wahl provides a lucid exploration of the interrelations between fashion, art, and Aestheticism during the latter half of t

Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the

Beauty’s Body argues that representations of femininity in the painting, poetry, and prose of British aestheticism are not merely incidental or decorative, bu

This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produ