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1 online resource (332 pages) |
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; Talking about Beauty; Stealthy Environments; Aestheticism's Environments; Aesthetics of Acuteness; Tropisms of Longing; Great House and Super-Cortex; Growing Up Awry; EPILOGUE; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. Weaving together readings in literature, psychology, biology, philosophy, education, child-rearing advice, and interior design, he shows how this idea abet |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society.
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Literature -- Aesthetics.
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Society in literature.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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Society in literature
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Literature -- Aesthetics
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Literature and society
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Literature, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400832804 |
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1400832802 |
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0691146616 |
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9780691146614 |
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0691133484 |
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9780691133485 |
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