TY  - GEN
T1  - Fateful Beauty : Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960.
A1  - Mao, Douglas
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn692156954
AB  - 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.
OP  - 332
CN  - PN761.M26 2008
SN  - 9781400832804
SN  - 1400832802
SN  - 0691146616
SN  - 9780691146614
SN  - 0691133484
SN  - 9780691133485
KW  - Literature, Modern : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature, Modern : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature and society.
KW  - Literature : Aesthetics.
KW  - Society in literature.
KW  - Littérature : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature et société.
KW  - Littérature : Esthétique.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Aesthetics.
KW  - Society in literature
KW  - Literature : Aesthetics
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 1800-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -