Victorian Modernism

Klappentext Jessica Feldman sheds new light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism. Zusammenfassung Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis! rupture and loss. Examining the works of John Ruskin! Dante Gabriel Rossetti! and the best-selling domestic novelist Augusta Evans! Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Klappentext

Jessica Feldman sheds new light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism.

Zusammenfassung
Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture and loss. Examining the works of John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the best-selling domestic novelist Augusta Evans, Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations.

Inhalt

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.