English Literature

Vol. 2, n. 2 - Dicembre 2015

Sommario / Table of Contents: Mariaconcetta Costantini Introduction Francesca Orestano The Chemistry of Taste Aesthetics, Literature, and the Rise of the Impure Andrew Mangham Starving by Numbers William Farr, Medical Statistics and the Social Aesthetics of Hunger Silvana Colella «The mind washes its hands in a basin» Walter Bagehot’s Literary Essays and Impure Criticism Saverio Tomaiuolo Fact and Taste Thematic and Metaliterary Impurity in Hard Times Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Morbid Taste, Morbid Anatomy and Victorian Sensation Fiction Anne-Marie Beller «You’re obliged to have recourse to bodies» Corporeal Proliferation, Class, and Literary Taste in M.E. Braddon’s Revision of The Outcasts Raffaella Antinucci «Sensational nonsense» Edward Lear and the (Im)purity of Nonsense Writing Jude V. Nixon Hopkins’s Poetic Porcupines and the Aesthetic of Taste Roger Ebbatson Transgressive Art «Before the Mirror» Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva Andrew King Impure Researches, or Literature, Marketing and Aesthesis The Case of Ouida’s «A Dog of Flanders» (1871-Today) Maria Luisa De Rinaldis The Sacred in Pater’s Aesthetic Ambivalences and Tensions Gilles Menegaldo Late-Victorian Modes of the Aesthetic Impure The Strange Case of Arthur Machen Pierpaolo Martino Consumerism, Celebrity Culture and the Aesthetic Impure in Oscar Wilde

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