Fateful Beauty : Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960.
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 intellectua...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2010.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sd58 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.