The Eighteen Nineties

The Eighteen Nineties PDF Author: Holbrook Jackson
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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The Eighteen Nineties

The Eighteen Nineties PDF Author: Holbrook Jackson
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Enoch Soames: A Memory of The Eighteen-Nineties

Enoch Soames: A Memory of The Eighteen-Nineties PDF Author: Max Beerbohm
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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"When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly written. And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade." -an excerpt

The Eighteen Nineties

The Eighteen Nineties PDF Author: Holbrook Jackson
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Passionate Attitudes

Passionate Attitudes PDF Author: Matthew Sturgis
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ISBN: 9781843680734
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets--weary of life--sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of this beguiling picture is peculiar, for the myth of the Decadent Nineties was created during the period itself. It was an age of artistic self-consciousness, during which writers and painters believed that they had to create not only their works but also their personalities. In Passionate Attitudes, Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence. He explores in detail the cataclysmic effect upon English decadence of the spectacular trial and subsequent conviction of Wilde in 1895, a fall which was to cast a blight over the whole generation. As well as the luminaries Wilde, Beardsley and Beerbohm, Sturgis portrays Arthur Symons, the poet of the music halls, who divided his energies between promoting Verlaine and chasing after chorus girls; Ernest Dowson, the demoralized romantic of the Rhymers Club; Count Erik Stenbock, who kept a snake up his sleeve and went mad; and John Gray, who may have been the model for Wilde's Dorian. John Lane published most of their books; Owen Seaman and Ada Leverson parodied their manners. Elegantly written, Passionate Attitudes provides a hugely informative and richly entertaining account of the zeitgeist behind the glorious decade of excess.

Enoch Soames

Enoch Soames PDF Author: Sir Max Beerbohm
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502880000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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"[...]had another book coming out soon. I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. "My poems," he answered. Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title at all. "If a book is good in itself—" he murmured, and waved his cigarette. Rothenstein objected that absence of title might be bad for the sale of a book. "If," he urged, "I went into a bookseller's and said simply, 'Have you got?' or, 'Have you a copy of?' how would they know what I wanted?" "Oh, of course I should have my name on the cover," Soames answered earnestly. "And I rather want," he added, looking hard at Rothenstein, "to have a drawing of myself as frontispiece." Rothenstein admitted that this was a capital idea, and mentioned that he was going into the country and would be there for some time. He then looked at his watch, exclaimed at the hour, paid the waiter, and went away with me to dinner. Soames remained at his post of fidelity to the glaucous witch. "Why were you so determined not to draw him?" I asked.[...]".

Extraordinary Aesthetes

Extraordinary Aesthetes PDF Author: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487546092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.

The Living Age

The Living Age PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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The Eighteen Nineties

The Eighteen Nineties PDF Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher: Holmes Press
ISBN: 144377698X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Often dismissed as merely decadent--which was indeed one aspect of the period--the 1890s were in many ways the threshold to the modern era. The range of talents that flowered in this period is truly remarkable: Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, William Morris, James McNeil Whistler, H.G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, to name only a few.

Degeneration

Degeneration PDF Author: Max Simon Nordau
Publisher: London, Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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The Bookman

The Bookman PDF Author:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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