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Fateful beauty: aesthetic environments, juvenile development, and literature, 1860-1960

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Modernist Literature and Criticism American and British Literature Analysis Decadence, Literature, and Society

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PREFACE ix INTRODUCTION: Talking about Beauty 1 CHAPTER ONE: Stealthy Environments 18 Guarded Moments 18 Significant Surroundings 35 The Unconscious before Freud 45 Secrets of the Aesthetic 56 CHAPTER TWO: Aestheticism's Environments 66 Walter Pater and the Child in the House 66 Oscar Wilde and the Making of the Soul 81 Beauty and Freedom 101 CHAPTER THREE: Aesthetics of Acuteness 109 Aestheticism, Naturalism, Pater, Zola, Joyce, Dreiser 109 Chemical Action Set Up in the Soul 115 Why Integritas 129 CHAPTER FOUR: Tropisms of Longing 139 Compulsions of the Body 139 Insidious Beauty 160 Onward, Onward 166 CHAPTER FIVE: Great House and Super-Cortex 177 West's Ancestral Enclosures 177 Excitatory Complexes 193 Cultivating Treason 203 CHAPTER SIX: Growing Up Awry 216 Auden's Hothouse Plants 216 Evolution and Individuation 227 Showing Off, Setting Off 244 EPILOGUE 256 NOTES 267 REFERENCES 289 INDEX 307

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