... and intellection: Alan Hollinghurst. In The Line of Beauty (2004), Hollinghurst offers not merely a stylistic homage to, but also a political remobilization of, Jamesian aesthetics—and in ways that say as much about how writers today can respond to the challenges of postmodern- ism as about what it means...

..., particularly in sexual terms (see Hollinghurst, King, Maddox); Clark is similarly stern on New Eve. I try to account for all of these reactions in my argument. I am grateful to Wendolyn Weber for research on Ackroyd and Carter criticism. 2 See Rykwert. 3 See Rykwert and Hollinghurst...