CALLING OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art his "most elusive legacy," Brown attempts to define Wilde's conception of what art is and what it is not, of what the experience of art means in the modern world, and of the contradictory relations between the work of art and the sphere of everyday ethics. She traces the experimental character of Wilde's thought from its resonance in his own life through its development within the tradition of aesthetic philosophy, ultimately focusing on his sense of the equivocal and diminishing presence of art in the postindustrial world.
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Julia Prewitt Brown's study of Wilde's philosophy of art is much the best analysis yet performed of Wilde's crucial place in the tradition that goes from Schiller and Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Ruskin, on to Pater, Wilde, and Walter Benjamin. Brown usefully distances Wilde from Pater's aesthetic empiricism and returns him to Kant's critical idealism.
(Harold Bloom, Yale University )At a time when apostles from all points along an ideological spectrum have denigrated art, criticism, and aesthetics, Julia Prewitt Brown has given us an elegant, persuasive, revisionary account of Oscar Wilde, a figure asnecessary to our own fin de siecle as to his own.... Placing him within the intellectual context of the German Romantics, the French Symbolistes, and his own Victorian contemporaries, Professor Brown proves herself a worthy practitioner of what Wilde labeled 'cosmopolitan criticism.'.
(Willard Spiegelman, Southern Methodist University )About the Author
Julia Prewitt Brown is Associate Professor of English at Boston University
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OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art developed over a period of some thirty years, although his writings on the subject scarcely span a decade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art developed over a period of some thirty years, although his writings on the subject scarcely span a decade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cosmopolitan criticism, aesthetic state, being earnest, aesthetic imagination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frank Harris, Lady Windermere, Lord Henry, Judge Wilhelm, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, Alfred Douglas, French Revolution, Kierkegaard's Either, Signs of the Times, The Storyteller, Walter Benjamin New!
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