W książce „Idylls of the Marketplace. Oskar Wilde and the Victorian Public” literaturoznawczyni Regenia Gagnier pokazuje relacje między literaturą brytyjską końca XIX wieku a jej ówczesnymi odbiorcami.
Książka w języku angielskim.
Nota wydawnicza:
This book provides a critical theory of the British aestheticism of the1890’s from the point of view of the audiences that consumed it. Specifically, it suggests that Wilde’s contradictions and ambiguities can be understood only by recognizing that he performed simultaneously for different audiences with different expectations. Reconsidering Theodor Adorno’s and Peter Burger’s critiques of aestheticism, the author uses literary analysis and social history within the context of commodity theory to situate the modern art world and the artist within popular culture at the beginnings of mass consumerist society – within the late-Victorian institutions of journalism, modern advertising, the English public school, homosexual communities, criminology, etiquette, spectacular theater, and prison.
The five chapters describe Wilde’s alternative strategies, throughout his work, of witty critique and jeweled seduction as a solution to the modern artist’s dilemma of being caught between a private art and a need for a public. In both, Wilde’s art and it’s social context, the author analyzes, first, commodification of the dandy as the human equivalent to aestheticism, then, the role of entertainment in the society of the spectacle. She shows, finally, how the ideological isolation of Wilde’s trials and the material isolation of his imprisonment made – and make- De Profundis unconsumable for all save artists and rebels.
Spis treści:
- Introduction
- 1. Creating the Audience
- 2. Dandies and Gentlemen: or, Dorian Gray and the Press
- 3. Comedy and Consumers
- 4. Art for Love’s Sake: Salonie and Reading Gaol
- 5. De Profundis: An Audience of Peers
- Appendixes
- A. Art as Propaganda in Wartime: The Pemberton-Billing Trials on Solarne
- B. Alfred Douglas’s Political Interpretation of Wilde’s Conviction
- C. Commodity Fetishism as Poetry in A Florentine Tragedy
- Notes
- Selected
- Bibliography
- Index
Format 15,5×23,5 cm, stron 255, twarda okładka z obwolutą.
Stan dobry (otarcia obwoluty).
ISBN: 0804713340
