Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater : Victorian aestheticism, doubt and secularisation
Lyons, Sara2015
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How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminates the contradictory impulses of modern secularism: on the one hand, a desire to cast itself as a form of neutrality or disinterestedness; on the other, a desire to affirm 'this world' as the place of human flourishing or even enchantment.
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Leeds : Legenda, 2015.
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1 volume
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9781909662483 (hbk)
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English
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1137823
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