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Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s: The Imperfect Wagnerites Book

This volume is a study of the influence of Richard Wagner on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). It considers Beardsley's pictorial and literary versions - or perversions - of Wagner's operas and explores the role of Wagnerism within British culture of the 1890s in particular the relations between Wagnerism and the decadent movement.Read More

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    This volume is an interdisciplinary study of the influence of the operas, writing, and personality of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). In exploring Beardsley's often iconoclastic versions--or perversions--of Wagner's work Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagernism in the 1890s aims to investigate the role of Wagnerism with "fin-de-siecle" British culture, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and contemporary decadence.

  • 0198187327
  • 9780198187325
  • Emma Sutton
  • 26 September 2002
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
  • illustrated edition
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