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Title Economies of desire at the Victorian fin de siècle : libidinal lives / edited by Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2016
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Series Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 16
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 16.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Articulating Desire; 1 Always Leave Them Wanting more: Oscar Wilde's Salome and the Failed Circulations of Desire; 2 A.E. Housman's Ballad Economies; 3 Perfume Clouds: Olfaction, Memory, and Desire in Arthur Symons's London Nights (1895); PART II: Human Currencies; 4 Urban Economies and the Dead-Woman Muse in the Poetry of Amy Levy and Djuna Barnes; 5 Greek Gift and "Given being": The Libidinal Economies of Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales
6 The Aesthete, the Banker, and the Saint: Economies of Gift and Desire in Lucas Malet's The Far Horizon (1906)PART III: Queer Performativity; 7 Living Parody: Eric, Count Stenbock, and Economies of Perversity; 8 Camp Aesthetics and Inequality: Baron Corvo's Toto Stories; 9 "Our brains struck fire each from each": Disidentification, Difference, and Desire in the Collaborative Aesthetics of Michael Field; Contributors; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Desire in literature.
Sex in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Economics in literature.
Desire in literature
Economics in literature
English literature
Literature and society
Sex in literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Ford, Jane, 1983- editor.
Keates, Kim Edwards, 1984- editor.
Pulham, Patricia, 1959- editor.
ISBN 9781315739373
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9781317576594
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9781317576587
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