... aestheticized, in fact participates in this tact at the same time that it presents readers and critics with a choice about how much they will say or consider themselves to know about the “facts” of the text they read. Thus, James's late style poses ethical problems to readers while representing such problems...

... the operation of translocated embodiment in the Anglo‐American leisure‐class community of The Portrait of a Lady . The aestheticism of Gilbert Osmond, Ralph Touchett, and Edward Rosier is read as a historically specific instance of translocated embodiment. Social disfavor of their overt translocation drives...

... she developed further in subsequent essays on Syrett's realism and her aestheticization of everyday life,' Ardis reads Netta Syrett's negotiating of the changing literary marketplace and the changing styles and modg of fiction as a form of resistance in which the middle-brow writer "talks...

... as a cognitive structure that can be viewed in literary representation. As Lee writes, the aesthetic is “a mode of cognition that exceeds the parameters of rational knowledge and/or political agency” (13). Using Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, Lee demonstrates how literary repre- sentations of aestheticization...

... of English at Duke University and author of Beauty’s Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism (1997) and coeditor of Women and British Aestheticism (1999). She is completing a book titled “Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel.” kent puckett is associate...

... the novel uses description” (1). Jarvis's emphasis on form also accounts for her last key term: exquisite . Although it is unclear exactly what nonexquisite masochism might be, or if it exists, Jarvis suggests that Victorian novelists associate erotic delay with a kind of polyvalent aestheticism...

..., as in art photography, depended on effacing the particularity of the real world and relying on an aesthetic of abstraction. To establish this thesis, he concentrates on “the grotesque and the typological” (6) in Charles Dickens and George Eliot, as well as the body of aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s...

..., The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel, will be published in Fall 2000. KAnfY ALEXIS PSOMIADES is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Beauty's Body and co-editor, with Talia Schaffer, of Women and British Aestheticism. She...

... of Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism and is currently working on a bodc entitled Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel. ELAINE FREEDGOOD is Assodate Professor of English at New York University, and the author of Victorian Writing about Risk...

... Wollaeger's Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism, for instance, is a great shibboleth in modernist studies-originating with Ford Madox Ford, and persisting into Fredric Jameson's depiction of Conrad's "aestheticizing strategyu-of attributing to Conrad's prose a fundamental "impressionism." Wollaeger...

... . Freedman , Jonathan . Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990 . Freud , Sigmund . “On Narcissism: An Introduction,” Trans. Cecil M. Baines Collected Papers . Vol. 9 . London: Hogarth Press, 1953 . 30 –59. Graham...

.... In chapter 2 she turns to George Egerton's, Sarah Grand's, and Henry James's thematic and narrative experiments centering on the aestheticized figure of the "modem" girl. In chapter 3 Joseph Conrad's attempts to "reenvision masculine agency and identity in imperial settings" are read...

... and Trilby, three decades during which Lucile’s and Poiret’s fashions turned heads on the streets of major metropolises, Joyce aestheticizes what were still deemed unseemly and aberrant—excessive female appetite and lusty savoir- faire. In “Penelope,” Molly’s internal vocalization of female...

...” of the Anthropologi- cal Society in London during the course of the 1860s. Whistler’s white girl glimpses the beginnings of aestheticism, the resistance to moral or narrative art and the focus on form per se—a white painting about the white rectangle—beginning the inevitable trajectory toward Kazimir Malevich...

... expression—flat characters, dialogue, polemic. The first chapter, “No News Is Good News: William Morris's Utopian Print,” describes a socialist aestheticism expressed in Commonweal and Kelmscott Press. Rather than dismiss or patronizingly marginalize Morris's utopianism, Miller follows Fredric Jameson...

... of contradictory imperatives—the imperative to articulate sympathy for suffering masses, and the imperative to aestheticize suffering through satire” (129). Tod Hackett’s dilemma is a version of West’s own; but if Tod finds a kind of resolution in grotesquerie, for West, as the Germans say, Umsonst ist der...

... . 1 ( 2009 ): 10 – 21 . Forster E. M. Aspects of the Novel . New York : Harcourt , 1927 . Freedman Jonathan . Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1990 . Glenn Joshua . “ Is It a Chamber Pot...

... simplicity” imply that in this text simplicity is seen as a notably aestheticized cultural ideal that is imposed upon language and style. The plainness and lack of intricacy, the freedom from ornament, artifice, and affectation of simplicity as it is imposed on the supposedly transparent child...

... on the powerful discursive associations between degener- acy, aestheticism and homosexuality, Cook loses some of the momentum of his otherwise thought-provoking approach to cultural texts. The most explicitly literary of Cook's chapters, "The Decadent City," reverts to some familiar narratives about...

... social development” against which it defines itself; in other words, for Bürger, “The inten- tion of the avant-gardiste may be defined as the attempt to direct toward the practical the aesthetic experience (which rebels against the praxis of life) that Aestheticism developed” (34). To be sure...