ENL 6256:
THE VICTORIAN FIN
DE SIÈCLE:
ITS PARADIGMS AND
MYTHOLOGIES
Dr. C.
Snodgrass; 4336 Turlington; 376-8362 (home) or 278-8362 (cell);
snod@english.ufl.edu
© Chris Snodgrass 2008
SYLLABUS:
READING
SCHEDULE
REQUIRED
TEXTS
(books
available at Goering’s Book Center; course packets available at Orange
& Blue Textbooks):
Walter
Pater, The Renaissance, ed.
Donald L. Hill (California).
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading
Gaol and Other Poems (Dover)
Aubrey Beardsley, The Best Works of
Aubrey Beardsley (Dover)
Seven photocopy supplements — buy at Orange & Blue Textbooks
SCHEDULE
(subject
to modest renegotiation)
Week 1 The Dream of Aestheticism
[Packet
#1; c.
100 pages; c. 45 pictures]
Introduction — background
Introduction, “William Michael
Rossetti
(1829–1919)”
Introduction, “John Ruskin (1819–1900)”
William Michael Rossetti — “The
Brotherhood in a Nutshell” from The
Germ (1850)
John Ruskin — “Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood” (Letters to the Times);
“ . . . absolute, uncompromising
truth”; “Pre-Raphaelitism,” from Lectures
on Architecture and Painting
(London: Smith Elder, 1854), 189–239.
19th
Century Art (on my website:
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Texts&Images.htm>):
John Everett Millais,
The
Woodman’s
Daughter (1951), The
Blind Girl (1854), Cherry Ripe
(1879);
William Holman Hunt, The
Awakening Conscience (1853),
The
Awakening Conscience
(1853),
The Lady of Shalott
(1889-92)
[Manchester]; Arthur Hughes,
The
Long
Engagement (1854-59), Home from the
Sea (1856-63),
Good Night
(1865-66), Sir Galahad
(1865-70); Augustus
Egg,
Travelling
Companions
(1862); William Bouguereau,
Le
Printemps
[The Return of Spring] (1866),
The
Abduction of Psyche (1895);
Edward Burne-Jones, Pygmalion
& the Image: The Heart Desires (1868-78),
Pygmalion & the
Image: The Hand Refrains (1868-78),
Pygmalion & the
Image: The Godhead Fires (1868-78),
Pygmalion & the
Image: The Soul Attains (1868-78), The Annunciation
(1879), King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884); Edwin Long,
The
Babylonian Marriage Market (1875), The
Chosen Five (1885);
Herbert Draper, A
Water Baby (1900); Frank
Dicksee, Harmony
(1877),
Chivalry (1885),
The
End of the Quest (1921); Frederic
Leighton, Idyll
(1880-81),
The
Bath of Psyche (c. 1890), Perseus
and Andromeda (1891-94), Flaming June
(1895), Flaming June 2
(1895); Albert
Moore, A
Workbasket (1879), Dreamers
(1879-82),
A
Summer Night (1887-90);
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, Beata
Beatrix
(1864-70)[Tate Gallery],
The Blessed Damozel (1875-78) [Tate Gallery],
Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850); Frederick
Sandys,
Mary
Magdalen (1858-60); John Spencer
Stanhope,
Eve
Tempted
(n.d),
Eve
Tempted (1877) [Manchester];
and John Waterhouse, The
Lady
of Shalott (1888), Hylas
and
the Nymphs (1896).
Karl Beckson, “Preface to
Second
Edition,” “Preface,” “Introduction,” from Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s
(1965; Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1981), vii–xliv.
Ian Small, “Introduction,”
from The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook
(London: Routledge, 1979), ix–xxix.
R. K. R. Thornton, “Preface,”
“The
Climate of Decline,” from The
Decadent Dilemma (London: Edwin Arnold, 1983), [0]–14.
Week
2 Walter Pater, Father of the “Religion of Art” [Packet #1;
The Renaissance; c. 220 pages
+
notes]
Introduction, “Walter Pater
(1839–1894)”
Walter Pater — Studies in the History of the Renaissance
(1873).
Week
3 Theorizing the “Religion of Art” [Packets #1 & #2;
c. 200 pages]
Packet
#1:
Théophile Gautier —
Preface to Mlle. de Maupin
(1835), v–xl.
Charles
Baudelaire — “The Painter of Modern Life”
(1863), 1–40.
James
McNeil Whistler — introduction to Whistler and
his lecture,
72–74; “Ten O’Clock Lecture” (1885), 76–89.
Introduction:
“Arthur Symons (1865–1945)”
Arthur Symons — Criticism:
“Preface: Being a Word on Behalf of Patchouli,” from Silhouettes (2nd edition, 1896) and
“Preface to 2nd Edition of London
Nights” (1896), from Studies
in Prose and Verse (1904),
279–85; “Decadent Movement in Literature,” [Harper’s Magazine 87 (Nov. 1893):
858–67] & Dramatis Personae
(1923), 96–117.
Introduction:
“Olive Custance (1874–1944)”
Olive Custance (Lady
Alfred Douglas) — “Peacocks: A Mood,” “The Masquerade,” “Hyacinthus,”
“The White Statue,” “Statues,” “Candle-Light,” “Pierrot.”
Introduction:
“Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)”
Max Beerbohm —
“In Defence of Cosmetics,” Yellow
Book 1 (April 1894): 137–53.
Packet
#2:
Introduction:
“Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)”
Aubrey Beardsley —
“The Art of Hoarding,” New Review
(July 1894): 91, 93–94.
Introduction:
“Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)”
Oscar Wilde —
“The Critic As Artist,” Nineteenth
Century (July and September 1890), and in Intentions (1891), [98]–224;
“Preface” to The Picture of Dorian
Gray (1890).
Hugh
E. M. Stutfield,
“Tommyrotics.” Blackwood’s
Edinburgh Magazine 157.956 (June 1895): 833-45.
Week 4 The Art of Life [Packet
#2,
c. 120 pages]
Introduction:
“Henry Harland (1861–1905)”
Henry Harland —
“The Invisible Prince,” The Yellow
Book 10 (July 1896): [59]–87; “Merely Players,” The Yellow Book 13 (April 1897):
[19]–50.
Introduction:
“Ella D’Arcy (1856?–1937?)”
Ella D’Arcy —
“The Pleasure-Pilgrim,” Yellow Book
5 (April 1895) and Monochromes
(1895), 165–218.
‒‒‒‒PROJECT
SELECTION DUE‒‒‒‒
Week 5 John Oliver Hobbes: Narrating Ironies and Paradoxes
[Packet
#2, c. 80
pages]
Introduction:
“John Oliver Hobbes [Pearl Craigie] (1867–1906)”
John Oliver Hobbes [Pearl
Craigie] — A Bundle of Life
(1894), 369–447.
Week 6 Ernest Dowson: Aestheticized Innocence and Tragedy
[Packet
#3, c.
265 pages]
Introduction: “Ernest Dowson
(1867–1900)”
Ernest Dowson — Poetry:
“In
Preface: For Adelaide,” “Vita summa
brevis,”“Nuns of the Perpetual
Adoration,” “My Lady April,” “Ad Domnulam Suam,” “Yvonne of Brittany,”
“Benedictio Domini,” “Growth,” “Ad Manus Puellae,” “Non Sum Qualis Eram
Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae,” “Exile,” “Spleen,” “O Mors! Quam Amara Est
Memoria,” “You would have understood me had you waited,”
“April
Love,” “Vain Hope,” “Vain Resolves,” “Villanelle of My Lady’s
Treasures,” “The Garden of Shadow,” “Amantium Irae,” “Impenetentia
Ultima,” “A Valediction,” “Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad,”
“Epigram,” “Beyond,” “Carthusians,” “To His Mistress,” “The
Sea-Change,” “Dregs,” “Venite Descendamus,” “Transition,” “Exchanges,”
“A Last Word.”
Dowson
— Fiction:
Mark Longaker, “Introduction,” 1–10, and “Notes,” 116–122, from The Stories of Ernest Dowson
(1947); “The Diary of a Successful Man,” Macmillan’s Magazine (February
1890) and Dilemmas (London:
Lane, 1895), 1–26; “An Orchestral Violin,” Macmillan’s Magazine (August 1891)
and Dilemmas, 51–85;
“Souvenirs of an Egoist,” Temple Bar
(January 1888) and Dilemmas,
87–122; “A Case of Conscience,” Century
Guild Hobby Horse (April 1891) and Dilemmas (1895), 27–49; “The Eyes
of Pride,” Savoy 1 (January
1896): 51–63; “Absinthia Taetra,” Decorations:
In Prose and Verse (London: Leonard Smithers, 1899), 46; “The
Visit,” Decorations, 47–48;
“The Princess of Dreams,” Decorations,
49–50.
Arthur
Symons, “Ernest Dowson,” The
Poems of Ernest Dowson (London: Lane: Bodley Head, 1905), v–xxix.
Chris Snodgrass, “Ernest
Dowson
and
Schopenhauer: Life Imitating Art in the Victorian Decadence,” Victorian Institute Journal 21
(Fall 1993): 1–46.
‒‒‒‒BIBLIOGRAPHY
DUE‒‒‒‒
Week 7 Eroticized Decadence [Packet
#4,
c. 130 pages]
Charles Baudelaire —
“Un Voyage
à Cythère” [“A Voyage to Cythera”] (1857),
translations
by Wallace Fowlie, Frederick Morgan, and David Paul respectively.
Introduction:
“John Gray (1866–1934)”
John Gray —
“Le Voyage à Cythère,”
“On a Picture,” “Poem,” “A
Crucifix,” “Parsifal Imitated,” “Femmes Damnées,” “The Barber,”
“Mishka,” “Charleville.”
Arthur
Symons — Criticism:
“The World as Ballet,” Studies in
Seven Arts (1906), 244–46; “Music Halls and Ballet Girls”
(1890s; TS Princeton, unpublished until Beckson, ed., Memoirs, 1977), 109–114; “Sex and
Aversion” (1890s; TS Princeton, unpublished until Memoirs, 1977), 137–40; “Lydia”
(1890s; TS Princeton, unpublished until Memoirs, 1977), 157–69.
Symons
— Poetry:
“Eyes,” “Morbidezza,” “Maquillage,” “Impression,” “On Meeting After,”
“Emmy,” “Javanese
Dancers,” “Prologue: Before the Curtain,” “Prologue: In the Stalls,”
“To a Dancer,” “Renée,” “Nora on the Pavement,” “Violet:
La Mélinite: Moulin Rouge,” “Violet: At the Ambassadeurs,”
“Stella Maris,” “Hallucination: I,” “Hallucination: II,” “Flora of the
Eden: Antwerp,” “White Heliotrope,” “Nerves,” “Madrigal: I,” “In the
Sanctuary at Saronno,” “Bianca: Bianca,” “Bianca: Benedictine,”
“Epilogue: Credo.”
Symons
— Fiction:
“The Death of Peter Waydelin,” Lippincott’s
Monthly Magazine 63 (February 1904) and Spiritual Adventures (London:
Constable, 1905), 99–116; “Christian Trevalga,” Spiritual Adventures (1905), 91–121.
Week 8 The New Priesthood and Its Martyrdom [Packet #4,
c.
200 pages]
Arthur Symons
— The
Symbolist Movement in Literature (1896–99)
Week 9 Mythologizing Degeneration [Packets #5, c.
175 pages; Wilde, Poems; plus
c. 25 pictures]
Stephen Arata, “Strange
Cases,
common
fates, degeneration and fiction in the Victorian fin de siècle,”
from Fictions of Loss in the
Victorian Fin de siècle (1996), 11–32, 186–92.
Chamberlin and Gilman,
“Preface,”
“Degeneration: An Introduction,” from Degeneration:
The Dark Side of Progress, eds. Edward J. Chamberlin and Sander
L. Gilman (1985), vii–xiv.
Sandra Siegel, “Literature
and
Degeneration: The Representation of ‘Decadence,’” from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress,
eds. Chamberlin and Gilman (1985), 199–219.
Sander L Gilman, “Sexology,
Psychoanalysis, and Degeneration: From a Theory of Race to a Race to
Theory,” from Degeneration: The Dark
Side of Progress, eds. Chamberlin and Gilman (1985), 72–96.
George
John Romanes — “Mental Differences
Between Men and Women,” Nineteenth
Century 21 (May 1887): 654–72.
Introduction: Virginia Blain,
“Mathilde
Blind (1841–96).”
Mathilde Blind — “A Fantasy,”
“Scarabaeus Sisyphus,” “Mourning Women,” “Noonday Rest,” “The Russian
Student’s Tale,” “A Carnival Episode,” “Sonnet,” “A Parting.”
Oscar
Wilde —
“Requiescat,” “Vita Nuova,”
“Impression du Matin,” “The Grave of Keats,” “Hélas!” “Taedium
Vitae,” “[Bittersweet Love],” “The Harlot’s House,” “The Ballad of
Reading Gaol.”
Introduction:
“Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947).”
Richard Le Gallienne —
“To the Reader,” “The
Décadent
to His Soul.”
Introduction:
“Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870–1896).”
Hubert Crackanthorpe —
Embers,” from Wreckage: Seven Studies
(1893),
215–32; “Dissolving View,” from Wreckage:
Seven Studies (1893), 113–24.
High Victorian Art (on
my website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Texts&Images.htm):
Arthur Hughes,
April Love
(1855-56); William Morris,
Queen
Guenevere (1858); Ford
Madox Brown,
“Take Your Son, Sir!” (1851-92) [unfinished]; William Shakespeare Burton,
The
Wounded Cavalier (1855);
D.
G. Rossetti, King
Arthur’s Tomb (1854), La
Ghirlandata (1873),
Astarte Syriaca (1877); Edward Burne-Jones,
Pan
and Psyche
(1872-74); William
Bouguereau,
Naissance
de Vénus [Birth of Venus]
(1879), Naissance
de Vénus [2]
(1879); Félicien Rops,
La
Femme au Lorgnon, or La
Buveuse d’Absinthe;
Lawrence
Alma-Tadema, In
the Tepidarium (1881); and Carlos
Schwabe,
The
Faun (1923).
Week 10 Homoeroticizing the “Religion of Art” [Packet #5,
c.
110 pages; plus c. 11 website pictures]
Introduction: “Lionel Johnson
(1867–1902)”
Lionel Johnson —
“The Cultured
Faun,” “The Church of a Dream,” “Mystic and Cavalier,” “To a
Passionist,” “In Honour of Dorian and His Creator,” “The Destroyer of a
Soul,” “The Dark Angel,” “Nihilism,” “A Decadent’s Lyric.”
Introduction: “Eric Stenbock
(1860–1895)”
Count Eric Stenbock — “A
Modern
St. Venantius,” “The Story of a Scapular,” pp. 95–110.
Introduction:
“Baron Corvo [Frederick Rolfe] (1860–1913)”
Baron Corvo [Frederick
Rolfe] —“Stories Toto Told Me,” The
Yellow Book 9 (April 1896): [86]–101.
Introduction: “Alfred Douglas
(1870–1945)”
Alfred Douglas —
“Two Loves,” Chameleon 1
(November 1894): 28.
X. [Anonymous]
— “The Priest and the Acolyte,” Chameleon
1 (November 1894): 29–47.
Aubrey Beardsley —
“The Three Musicians,” 50–52; “Ballad of the Barber” & The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser
(1895–97), 6–46.
Beardsley
— Best
Works of Aubrey Beardsley, pp. 19, 73–74, 76–77, 79, 82–85,
87–88, 91, 94, 97, 107, 123, 131–35, 144–47, 151,
154–55.
19th Century Art (on
my website:
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Texts&Images.htm):
John Collier, In the Venusburg
(Tannhäuser) (1901); Douris
[Greek
Vase
Painter], Heterosexual Intercourse, Homosexual
Intercourse [Boston], Satyr Reverie [British Museum];
Simeon
Solomon, Sappho
and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
(1864), Night
(1896); Bacchus
(1868); The
Sleepers, and the One that Watcheth (1870); Jean-Auguste Renoir, Young
Boy with a Cat (1868-69); Fredric
Leighton, Athlete
Struggling with a Python 1874-77);
William Bouguereau, Cupidon
(1875); Carlos Schwabe,
Les noces du poete avec la
muse ou
l’ideal (1902).
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STATEMENT OF THESIS DUE ——
Week 11 Mythologizing the Grotesque [Packet #6,
c.
235 pages; Best of Beardsley,
c. 35 pictures]
Geoffrey Harpham, “Chapter
One:
Formation, Deformation, and Reformation: An Introduction to the
Grotesque,” from On The Grotesque:
Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton UP, 1982), 3–22 (plus 8 illustrations).
John
Ruskin — from “Of Truth of Space,” Modern Painters I (1843): 327–35;
from “The Naturalist Ideal,” from “The Grotesque Ideal,” and from “Of
the Pathetic Fallacy,” Modern
Painters III (1856): 111–19, 130–35, 201–209; from “The Nature
of Gothic,” Stones of Venice
II (1851): 180–215.
Ella
D’Arcy — “The Death Mask,” The
Yellow Book 10 (July 1896): 265–74.
Introduction: “Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund Marriott-Watson] (1860–1911)”
Virginia Blain, “Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund Marriott-Watson]
(1860–1911)”
Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund
Marriott Watson]—“Old Pauline,” “Ballad of the Bird-Bride,” “A Ballad
of the Were-Wolf,” “Vespertilia,” “Hic Jacet,”
“Children of the Mist,” “The Cage,” “Epitaph,”
“Nirvana.”
Introduction: “Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] (1856–1935)”
Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] —
“The Wedding Chest,” “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady,” from The Yellow Book 10 (July 1896) and
republished in 1902.
Aubrey Beardsley — La Morte Darthur and other early
pictures: Best Works of Aubrey
Beardsley, pp. 3–17, 20–22, 62–72, 124–30; view Dante Gabriel
Rossetti’s La Pia de’ Tolomei
(1868-80) on my
website in conjunction with Beardsley’s Kiss of Judas.
Ian Fletcher, “A Grammar of Monsters,” ELT 30.2 (1987): 141–63.
Chris Snodgrass, “Beardsley’s
Oscillating Spaces: Play, Paradox, and the Grotesque,” Reconsidering Aubrey Beardsley, ed.
Robert Langenfeld (1989), [19]–52.
Week 12 Michael Field: The Tragic Art of Love [Packets #6 & #7,
c. 90 pages]
Introduction:
Virginia Blain, “Michael Field [Katherine
Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913)]”
Michael Field [Katherine
Bradley and Edith Cooper] — Poetry:
“Long
Ago: XIV,” “A Dance of Death,” “A Dying Viper,” “The Tragic Mary Queen
of Scots,” “The Woods Are Still,” “Unbosoming,” “As two fair vessels
side by side,” “Embalmment,” “The Mummy Invokes his Soul,” “Trinity,”
“Your Rose is Dead,” “Ebbtide at Sundown,”“Maids, not to you my mind
doth change,” “L’Indifférent,” “La Gioconda,” “Thanatos, thy
praise I sing,” “A Girl,” “It was deep April, and the morn” [a.k.a.
“Prologue”], “Venus and Mars” (see website image of Botticelli’s Venus
and Mars),” “The Magdalen,” “A Pen-Drawing of Leda.”
Michael
Field — Verse
Drama: Julia Domna
(1903), 1–50.
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DRAFT OF TERM PAPER DUE (Optional) ——
Week 13 Michael Field: Aestheticizing Classical Tragedy
[Packet
#7, c.
135 pages]
Michael Field —
Verse Drama: Callirrhoë
(1884), 1–133.
Week 14 The Reign of the Femme Fatale [Packet #7,
c. 85
pages; c. 85 pictures]
Historical images of Fatal
Women (on my website:
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Texts&Images.htm):
Andrea Mantegna,
Judith
and Holofernes (1495), Judith and Holofernes
(1495-1500)
[grisaille]; Giorgione, Judith
(1504); Caravaggio, Judith
&
Holofernes (c.1595), Salome
receives the Head of Saint John the Baptist
(1607-10), Salome
With the Head of the Baptist (c. 1609); Artemisia Gentileschi,
Judith
Slaying Holofernes
(c. 1620), Judith
Slaying Holofernes, Naples
(c. 1620), Judith and her
Maidservant (1612-13), Judith and
Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (1625); Peter Paul Rubens, Judith
with the
Head of Holofernes (c. 1616), Judith with the
Head of Holofernes (1620-22); Franz
von Stuck,
The
Sphinx (1889), Sin (1891), Sin
(1893), Sin [in frame] (1893), Sin
(1899), Sin (1900), Kiss
of the Sphinx
(1895), Sensuality [Black & White]
(1898), Salome (1906), Judith and Holofernes (1926); Carlos Schwabe,
Medusa
(1895); and Gustav Klimt,
Judith I
(1901), Judith
II
(1909).
19th
Century Art (on my website:
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Texts&Images.htm):
Jean-Auguste
Ingres, La
Grande Odalisque
(1814), Odalisque
with a Slave (1840); Eugène
Delacroix,
Medea
(1838); John
Everett Millais,
Mariana
(1851); William
Holman Hunt,
The
Hireling Shepherd (1851), The Lady of Shalott
(1889-92)
[Manchester]; Gustav Courbet,
La
Source
du Monde [The Origin of the World] (1862); Edouard Manet, Olympia
(1863), Woman
with a Parrot (1866), Nana (1877);
Frederick
Sandys,
Morgan le Fay
(1864);
Gustave Moreau, Oedipus
and the
Sphinx
(1864), Jason & Medea (1865), Samson
and Delilah
(1881-82), The Poet and the Siren (1894); D. G. Rossetti, Mariana
(1870); Edward Burne-Jones, Phyllis
and
Demophöon (1870), Tree
of Forgiveness (1881-82), The Beguiling of Merlin
(1874), Perseus
Slaying the Sea Serpent,
or Doom Fulfilled (1876-88),
The Depths of
the Sea (1887); Frederic Leighton,
The
Fisherman and the Siren (1856-58), The
Garden
of the Hesperides (c. 1892), Félicien Rops,
La Tentation
de St-Antoine [The Temptation of Saint Anthony] (1878), Pornokrates,
or
La Dame au cochon (1879), Frontispiece
for Les Diaboliques
by
Barbey d’Aurevilly (1886), L’Incantation
[Incantation]; John Collier,
Lilith
(1887); Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer,
Salome Embracing
the Severed Head of John
the Baptist (1896), Medusa (1897); John
Waterhouse,
Pandora
(1896), Ariadne
(1898), Lamia and the Soldier
(1905), Lamia (1909; Khnopff,
The
Caress (1896);
Alexandre Cabanal, Cleopatra
Testing
Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1897);
Herbert Draper, The Water Nymph (1898), The Gates of
Dawn (c.
1900), Ulysses and the Sirens (1909),
Clyties of the Mist (1912), The
Kelpie (1913); Frank Dicksee,
La
Belle Dame Sans Merci (1902); Edward Poynter,
The Cave of the Storm
Nymphs (1903); and Arthur Wardle, A
Bacchante
(1909).
Introduction:
“Theodore Wratislaw (1871–1933)”
Theodore Wratislaw —
“To Salome at St. James’s,” The
Yellow Book 3 (October 1894): 110–11.
Aubrey Beardsley — Salome
pictures from Best of Beardsley
(may get better
detail on my website), pp. 18, 24–39.
Arthur
Symons —
“Aubrey Beardsley” (1898), 87–106;
“Studies in Strange Sins (After Beardsley’s Designs)” (1920), 273–85.
Chris Snodgrass, “Decadent
Mythmaking:
Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley and Salome,” Victorian Poetry 28, No. 3-4
(Autumn-Winter 1990): 61–109.
Week 15 The Iconic Beardsley Woman [Packet #7,
c. 15
pages; Best of Beardsley, c.
100 pictures]
Introduction: “Eliza Lynn
Linton
(1822–1898)”
Eliza Lynn Linton —
“The Wild Women As Social Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century 30 (October
1891): 596–605.
Aubrey
Beardsley — illustrations from Yellow
Book and Savoy
periods: Best Works of Aubrey
Beardsley, pp. 23, 40–61, 86, 89, 91–93, 95–107, 136–40, 149–50,
152–53, 156–60; illustrations for The
Rape of the Lock, Pierrot of
the Minute, Lysistrata,
Volpone, and other later
projects: Best Works of Aubrey
Beardsley, pp. 95–106, 114–22, 131–35, 148.
Punch cartoons
(see my website): “Prospects for
the Coming Season” (Vol 98, p. 147), “Darwinian Theory”
(Vol 102, p. 291), “Imitation is
Sincerest Flattery” (Vol 98, p. 162), New Woman with Flowerpot Hat
(Vol
103, p. 49), New Women Society (Vol 108, p.282), “Bird of Prey” (Vol 102),
Woman with Peacock Fan
(Vol 104, p. 21), “Descent Into the
Maelstrom” (Vol 104, p. 38), “Donna Quixote” (Vol 106),
“Beardsley Admiring Himself,” “One
& Only Aubrey,” “Portrait of the
Artist in Bedlam” (Vol 107, p. 205), “An
Appropriate Illustration, by Danby Weirdsley” (Vol 106),
“Le
Yellow Book” (Vol
108), “Mortarthurio
Whiskersley”
(Vol 107), “Ars Postera” (Vol 106), “Bodily Precious
Head” (Vol 108), “She-Notes” (Vol 106), “Beardsley Promotes Yellow Book
Woman (Vol 108),” “Quid Est Pictura? —
Veritas Falsa”
(Vol. 107, p. 47).
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