Synopses & Reviews
Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist's light on the relationship between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Feldman examines the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist)and William James (philosopher and psychologist) and relates them to select twentieth-century creations.
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"[T]his is a thought-provoking study. Highly recommended." Choice
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"Deft and winning." Studies in English Literature
Synopsis
Jessica Feldman sheds new light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. A sweet continuance: John Ruskin's Victorian Modernism; 3. Arrangements: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Victorian Modernism; 4. Recondite analogies: Augusta Evans' Victorian Modernism; 5. Positions of repose: William James' Victorian Modernism; 6. Afterword; Notes; Index.