Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV

Name: Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Henry James, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde by their Contemporaries

By: Sarah Annes Brown

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1 December 2005

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23.4 x 15.6 x 10.16

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Academic - Scholarly - Primary Sources - Nineteenth-Century History - Nineteenth-Century Literature - Biography; Henry James and Edith Wharton were both born into wealthy New York society while Oscar Wilde was also born to socially prominent and intellectual parents. All three spent much of their lives as expatriates and their most famous works are perceived as highly autobiographical, documenting and satirising the morally and aesthetically sophisticated milieu in which they mixed. The lives of James and Wharton are particularly closely interlinked, James's writing having a significant influence on Wharton whilst their friendship, and Wharton's influence, helped to secure James's financial situation during the final years of his life. James and Wilde were very careful to fashion their own images as literary figures, while Wharton had to balance the demands of her position as society hostess with her desire to write. Between them they helped to redefine late Victorian literature often concentrating on the tensions between the inner life of their characters and the conflicting demands placed on them by a rigid social code. This collection brings together contemporary accounts of these significant literary figures some of which confirm while others confound the literary myths that have grown up around them and their own presentations of themselves. It continues this highly successful series which illuminates the lives and works of a wide range of important writers from the nineteenth-and early twentieth-centuries.

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'These exemplary anthologies will draw students and scholars back to take a closer look at these often neglected texts ... each volume is eminently, engrossingly browsable' Australasian Victorian Studies Journal

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