Sarahglendon Lyons: 1 book
Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater
Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminates the contradictory...
