Modernist aesthetics and consumer culture in the writings of Oscar Wilde /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fortunato, Paul L., 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2007]
Series:	Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Subjects:	Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation. Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Aesthetics. Material culture in literature. Women in literature. Fashion in literature. Aesthetics, Modern. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Background : Wilde's social circles and consumer culture
Newspaper culture in the Pall Mall Gazette years (1884-1890)
The Woman's world (1887-1889) as fashion magazine and modernist laboratory
Philosophy with a needle and thread : the aesthetics of fashion in Baudelaire, Wilde, and Tomson/Watson
Consumer fashion and modernist aesthetics in Lady Windermere's fan (1892)
Mrs. Erlynne as modernist : the artist of consumer image and ritual.