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Title: IN THE NINETIES
By: John Stokes
Format: Hardback

List price: £28.00


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ISBN 10: 0226775380
ISBN 13: 9780226775388
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 23 October, 1989
Edition: 2nd ed.
Pages: 222
Synopsis: John Stokes's lively study is an exercise in interdisciplinary criticism inspired by the decade it observes, the decade of Wilde, Shaw, Beardsley, and Sickert. No longer dismissed as merely transitional between the Victorian and the Modern, the 1890s have now come to be recognized as unique a period of dramatic engagement between high culture and popular forms, one medium and another, art and life. Spurning fixed boundaries, Stokes relates the controversial topics of the day the status of the "New Journalism," the "degenerative" influence of Impressionist painting, the dubious morality of the music hall, the urgent need for prison reform, and the prevalence of suicide to primary literary texts, such as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jude the Obscure," and "Portrait of a Lady." And in the process, he explores crucial areas of sociological and psychological interest: criminality, sexuality, madness, and "morbidity." Each of the book's six chapters opens with a look at the correspondence columns of daily newspapers and goes on, with a keen eye for the hidden link, to pursue a particular theme. Locations shift from Leicester Square and the Thames embankment to the Normandy coast and the Paris morgue and feature, along with famous names, a lesser known company of acrobats, convicts, aesthetes, "philistines," and mysterious suicides. Nearly a century later, John Stokes's unrivalled knowledge of how the arts actually functioned in the nineties makes this book a major contribution to modern cultural studies."
Illustrations: 39 halftones
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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