Table of Contents
Introduction
[Bénédicte Coste, Catherine Delyfer and Christine Reynier]
Part I: Connecting Aestheticism and Modernism
1. The New Woman Flâneuse or Streetwalker? George Egerton’s Urban Aestheticism
[Tina O’Toole]
2. Re-crediting Arthur Symons, Decadent-Modernist Literary Ghost
[Elisa Bizzotto]
3. Modernists as Decadents: Excess and Waste in G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Others
[Rainer Emig]
4. From Periphery to Centre: The Female Writer in Walter Pater and Virginia Woolf
[Lene Østermark-Johansen]
5. Literary Cosmopolitans and Agents of Mediation: Oscar Wilde and Fin-de-siècle Viennese Artistic Networks
[Sandra Mayer]
Part II: Revising Assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism
6. Wet Aesthetics: Immersion versus the ‘perfect imbecility’ of the Stream in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
[Rebecca Bowler and Scott McCracken]
7. Artist Stories of the 1890s: Life, Art, and Sacrifice
[Elke D’hoker]
8. Aestheticism and Utilitarianism. A Victorian Debate and its Critical Legacy
[Emmanuelle De Champs]
9. ‘Dangerous thoughts in Bloomsbury’: Ethical Aestheticism and Imperial Fictions
[Christine Froula]
Part III: Speculative Orientations in Aestheticism and Modernism
10. Speculative Modernism
[Stephen Ross]
11. The Modernist Trajectory of Economics
[Mary Poovey]
12. Speculating on Art in Fin-de-siècle Fiction
[Catherine Delyfer]
13. Bogus Modernism: Impersonation, Deception and Trust in Ford Madox Ford and Evelyn Waugh
[Rob Hawkes]
14. Ownership and Interpretation: on Ezra Pound’s Deluxe First Editions
[Michael Kindellan]