British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile

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ISBN: 9780230547117 | 0230547117
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Copyright: 6/15/2009

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, the book aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.

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List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: The Origins	p. 1
The afterlife of Greece: Rome to the Romantics	p. 6
Victorian Greece: social and intellectual background	p. 9
The enemies of Greece	p. 12
Pater, 'Winckelmann', and the Aesthetic Life	p. 23
Winckelmann and the rise of modern Hellenism	p. 26
Pater's Winckelmann	p. 31
Paganism and Christianity: Peter and Arnold	p. 36
Dionysus and Other Studies	p. 42
The aesthetic life	p. 45
Vernon Lee and the Aesthetics of Doubt	p. 55
The child among the statues	p. 56
The woman among the aesthetes	p. 65
Lee's un-aesthetic 1880s	p. 68
Women classicists: an intellectual context	p. 75
Spectral classicism	p. 81
The epilogue	p. 88
'Two Dear Greek Women': The Aesthetic Ecstasy of Michael Field	p. 93
Aesthetic beginnings	p. 96
Sapphic aestheticism	p. 100
Bacchic aestheticism	p. 111
The Greek Life of Oscar Wilde	p. 125
The aesthetic education: Pater and Symonds	p. 129
The cry of Marsyas	p. 139
Aesthetic Hellenism	p. 143
Eros and philosophy	p. 148
Conclusion: The End of Aestheticism - A Dream, Three Trials, Two Ghosts	p. 158
Notes	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 186
Index	p. 196
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British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile

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