Description |
xi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
ISBN |
9781848935112 hardback : alkaline paper |
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1848935110 hardback : alkaline paper |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Female beauty and portraits of self-effacement in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre / Sarah Wootton -- Dickens and the line of beauty / Robert Douglas-Fairburst -- 'Ugly meanings in beautiful things': reading the first Wilde trial / Simon J. James -- The beauties of T.S. Eliot / Seamus Perry -- 'The enigmatical beauty of each beautiful enigma': the persistence of beauty and death in the poetics of Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens / Mark Sandy -- W.H. Auden: The loveliness that is the case / Tony Sharpe -- Something in the works: Frost, Bishop and the idea of beauty / Angela Leighton -- The difficulty of beauty: Hopkins, Yeats, Hart Crane, Spender / Michael O'Neill -- 'Beauty in trouble': Robert Graves and Louis MacNeice / Fran Brearton -- Beauty is death / Timothy Morton. |
Summary |
Examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature.--Provided by publisher |
Library Class |
English E468.A3
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Subject |
Aesthetics in literature.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Irish literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Other Author |
O'Neill, Michael, 1953- editor.
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Sandy, Mark, 1970- editor.
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Wootton, Sarah, editor.
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