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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主要作者: Mao, Douglas
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2010.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sd58
書本目錄:
  • 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.