Extraordinary Aesthetes

Joseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJoseph BristowPart One: New Women, Female Aesthetes, and the Emergence of Decadence1. Impressionistic Photography and the flâneuse in Amy Levy’s Romance of a ShopS. Brooke Cameron2. The Decay of Marriage in Ella D’Arcy’s Decadent New Woman FictionKate Krueger3. Mabel Dearmer’s Decadent WayDiana MaltzPart Two: Femininity, Masculinity, and Fin-de-Siècle Aesthetics4. "So much too little": Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, and the Question of InfluenceBeth Newman5. Richard Le Gallienne and the Rhymers: Masculine Minority in the 1890sEmily Harrington6. Max Beerbohm’s "Improved" Intentions by Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetics of CosmesisMegan Becker Part Three: Women, Babies, Moons – 1890s Poetics7. Dollie Radford and the Case of the Disappearing BabiesJulie Wise8. "She hath no air": Mary Coleridge’s MoonKasey Bass Part Four: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Modern Age9. Radical Empathy in Dora Sigerson’s Fairy Changeling and Broadside Poems of 1916–17So Young Park10. The Boom in Yellow: The Afterlife of the 1890sKristin MahoneyContributorsIndex

"[Extraordinary Aesthetes] is rich in material and interpretation and introduces the reader to aspects of cultural and literary life at the end of the nineteenth century, which will certainly enrich any previous studies and encourage further reading. Bristow’s mission to extend and transform his cited key texts is successfully achieved." - Miriam al Jamil (The Wildean)