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| Named Person: | Aubrey Beardsley; Aubrey Beardsley; Aubrey Beardsley; Richard Wagner; Richard Wagner; Aubrey Beardsley; Richard Wagner |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Emma Sutton |
| ISBN: | 0198187327 9780198187325 |
| OCLC Number: | 48468488 |
| Description: | viii, 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Wagnerism in Britain in the 1890s; 1. Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde; 2. The pathology of pleasure: decadent sensibility and affective art; 3. Wagnerites en masse: the audience as spectacle; 4. Commercialism and consumerism: Wagnerism in The Savoy; 5. Antiquarianism and national identity: Under the Hill; 6. Concluding the cycle: Das Rheingold; Epilogue: framing the decade; Select bibliography; Index |
| Responsibility: | Emma Sutton. |
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This book shows an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship. It provides a wealth of scholarly citation, plentiful detailed information, and some material that is either new or little emphasized ... it is a pleasure, moreover, that [Sutton's] book employs user-friendly footnotes at the bottom of each page, instead of resorting to much more cumbersome endnotes. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies Sutton has written a ground-breaking book that richly amplifies our view of Beardsley as an artist in black and white. Victorian Studies ... admirable study ... a very solid piece of scholarship that will be a valuable contribution to the cultural history of the fin de siecle as well as to Beardsley studies. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ... a very fine piece of scholarship ... Sutton gives us important new insights into several Beardsley works that have not previously been sufficiently understood and helpfully corrects errors by previous scholars. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ... an important cultural history and an exemplary paradigm of interdisciplinary research ... This study is especially pertinent, for British Wagnerism has received as little critical attention in literary studies as it has in musicology of nineteenth-century Britain. Nineteenth-Century Literature ... an informative and welcome addition to scholarship about fin-de-siecle Britain. Not only is Sutton widely read, but she also has the ability to connect disparate discourses persuasively. Her discussion is illuminating and apposite, especially in a period of increasing interest in interdisciplinary scholarship. Scholars in various disciplines will find her book not only a useful reference but also a fine interdisciplinary undertaking. Nineteenth-Century Literature In her riveting and original new book, Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s ... Emma Sutton vividly illuminates the relationship of art, music and society at a crucial point in cultural history. RA, The Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, Summer 2003 Sutton's argument is carefully and persuasively constructed ... [she] demonstrates impressive sensitivity. Music and Letters, February 2004 Read more...
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- Beardsley, Aubrey, -- 1872-1898 -- Knowledge -- Music.
- Beardsley, Aubrey, -- 1872-1898 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Beardsley, Aubrey, -- 1872-1898. -- Story of Venus and Tannhäuser.
- Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
- Music and literature -- History -- 19th century.
- Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Influence.
- Art and music -- History -- 19th century.
- English literature -- German influences.
- Art, British -- German influences.
- Beardsley, Aubrey, -- 1872-1898.
- Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883.
