Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 Book

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Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960, When Oscar Wilde said he had seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime, his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously—both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Dougl, Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960

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Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960
Written by author Douglas Mao
Published by Princeton University Press, May 2010
When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously—both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Dougl
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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

Title: Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960

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