English Literature. Vol. 2, n. 2 - Dicembre 2015
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Sommario / Table of Contents:
Mariaconcetta Costantini
Introduction
Francesca Orestano
The Chemistry of Taste
Aesthetics, Literature, and the Rise of the Impure
Andrew Mangham
Starving by Numbers
William Farr, Medical Statistics and the Social Aesthetics of Hunger
Silvana Colella
«The mind washes its hands in a basin»
Walter Bagehot’s Literary Essays and Impure Criticism
Saverio Tomaiuolo
Fact and Taste
Thematic and Metaliterary Impurity in Hard Times
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Morbid Taste, Morbid Anatomy and Victorian Sensation Fiction
Anne-Marie Beller
«You’re obliged to have recourse to bodies»
Corporeal Proliferation, Class, and Literary Taste in M.E. Braddon’s Revision of The Outcasts
Raffaella Antinucci
«Sensational nonsense»
Edward Lear and the (Im)purity of Nonsense Writing
Jude V. Nixon
Hopkins’s Poetic Porcupines and the Aesthetic of Taste
Roger Ebbatson
Transgressive Art «Before the Mirror»
Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva
Andrew King
Impure Researches, or Literature, Marketing and Aesthesis
The Case of Ouida’s «A Dog of Flanders» (1871-Today)
Maria Luisa De Rinaldis
The Sacred in Pater’s Aesthetic
Ambivalences and Tensions
Gilles Menegaldo
Late-Victorian Modes of the Aesthetic Impure
The Strange Case of Arthur Machen
Pierpaolo Martino
Consumerism, Celebrity Culture and the Aesthetic Impure in Oscar Wilde
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Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital PublishingDate:
2015Format
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• Letterature