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Mao Fateful Beauty
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Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960
E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3280-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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PREFACE ix
INTRODUCTION: Talking about Beauty 1
CHAPTER ONE: Stealthy Environments 18
Guarded Moments 18
Significant Surroundings 35
The Unconscious before Freud 45
Secrets of the Aesthetic 56
CHAPTER TWO: Aestheticism’s Environments 66
Walter Pater and the Child in the House 66
Oscar Wilde and the Making of the Soul 81
Beauty and Freedom 101
CHAPTER THREE: Aesthetics of Acuteness 109
Aestheticism, Naturalism, Pater, Zola, Joyce, Dreiser 109
Chemical Action Set Up in the Soul 115
Why Integritas 129
CHAPTER FOUR: Tropisms of Longing 139
Compulsions of the Body 139
Insidious Beauty 160
Onward, Onward 166
CHAPTER FIVE: Great House and Super-Cortex 177
West’s Ancestral Enclosures 177
Excitatory Complexes 193
Cultivating Treason 203
CHAPTER SIX: Growing Up Awry 216
Auden’s Hothouse Plants 216
Evolution and Individuation 227
Showing Off, Setting Off 244
EPILOGUE 256
NOTES 267
REFERENCES 289
INDEX 307