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Modernist aesthetics and consumer culture in the writings of Oscar Wild.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fortunato, Paul L.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Routledge, 2007.
Series:Studies in major literary authors.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Background:Wilde's social circles and consumer culture--Newspaper culture in the Pall Mall Gazette years(1884-1890)-- The woman's world (1887-1889) as fashion magazine and modernist laboratory--Philosophy with a needle and tread: The aesthetics of fashion in Baudelaire, Wilde, and Tomson/Watson--Consumer fashion and modernist aesthetics in Lady Windermere's fan (1892)
  • Mrs.Erlynne as Modernist:The artist of consumer image and Ritual
  • conclusion.