Paul Fortunato

Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

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Produktbeschreibung

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Womena (TM)s World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a fabulously popular playwright. Because of his desire to impact a mass audience, the primary elements of Wildea (TM)s consumer aesthetic were superficial ornament and ephemeral public image a " both of which he linked to the theatrical. This concern with the surface and with the ephemeral was, ironically, a foundational element of what became twentieth-century modernism a " thus we can call Wildea (TM)s aesthetic a consumer modernism, a root and branch of modernism that was largely erased.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415981033
• ISBN-10: 0415981034
• Artikelnr.: 22437121

Autorenporträt

Paul L. Fortunato is Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Downtown, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Background: Wilde
s Social Circles and Consumer Culture; Chapter 2 Newspaper Culture in the Pall Mall Gazette Years (1884
1890); Chapter 3 The Woman
s World (1887
1889) as Fashion Magazine and Modernist Laboratory; Chapter 4 Philosophy with a Needle and Thread: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Baudelaire, Wilde, and Tomson/Watson; Chapter 5 Consumer Fashion and Modernist Aesthetics in Lady Windermere
s Fan (1892); Chapter 6 Mrs. Erlynne as Modernist: The Artist of Consumer Image and Ritual; Conclusion;