This original and provocative study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting Victorian popular culture, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds a new and important dimension to the theorisations of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalised groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert's drama and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood's prose to George du Maurier's cartoons and Max Beerbohm's caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the parodies' interactions with the personae and texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. In doing so, he considers the impact that these interactions had on modern ideas of gender, sexuality, taste and politics.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521800396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96738235
Product Key Features
Author
Dennis Denisoff
Publication Name
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Zoology
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
480g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Dennis Denisoff
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture