Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 September 2002
- ISBN 9780198187325
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 224x145x18 mm
- Weight 402 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8pp halftones 0
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Short description:
Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s is an interdisciplinary study of the influence of Richard Wagner on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). The study considers Beardsley's pictorial and literary versions - or perversions - of Wagner's operas. It explores the role of Wagnerism within British culture of the 1890s, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and the decadent movement.
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Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s is an interdisciplinary study of the influence of the operas, writing, and personality of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Examining Beardsley's drawings and prose of the 1890s the study considers the ways in which Wagner's works were appropriated by this seminal figure of the British decadent movement. Despite recent critical interest in Beardsley and the 'fin-de-siècle', and considerable research on Wagnerism, Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagernism in the 1890s is the first study in English to consider at length Wagner's presence in Beardsley's work. Beardsley combined allusions to the German composer with many of the touchstones of decadent art - the exotic, the morbid, the erotic, and the mannered. In exploring Beardsley's often iconoclastic versions - or perversions - of Wagner's work Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagernism in the 1890s aims to investigate the role of Wagnerism with 'fin-de-siècle' British culture, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and contemporary decadence.
This book shows an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship. It provides a wealth of scholarly citation, plentiful detailed information, and some material that is either new or little emphasized ... it is a pleasure, moreover, that [Sutton's] book employs user-friendly footnotes at the bottom of each page, instead of resorting to much more cumbersome endnotes.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Wagnerism in Britain in the 1890s
Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde
The pathology of pleasure: decadent sensibility and affective art
Wagnerites en masse: the audience as spectacle
Commercialism and consumerism: Wagnerism in The Savoy
Antiquarianism and national identity: Under the Hill
Concluding the cycle: Das Rheingold
Epilogue: framing the decade
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