Title The aesthetics of space in nineteenth century British literature, 1843-1907 / Giles Whiteley

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. Contents Prologue: Joris-Karl Huysmans, or 'After Dickens'; Introduction: The Spatial Turn; 1. John Ruskin: Towards a Theoretics of Space; 2. Charles Dickens: After Realism; 3. Walter Pater: Towards an Aesthetics of Space; 4. Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitan Space; 5. Henry James: Modern Space; Conclusion: Unreal Cities: Towards Modernism; Index Summary Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Aestheticism (Literature) Space in literature. Aestheticism (Literature) English literature Space in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474484831 1474484832 9781474443753 1474443753 9781474443746 1474443745

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