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Collecting and appreciating
Simone Francescato
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Peter Lang
Language
English
Pages
209

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Subjects
Object (Aesthetics) in literature, Aesthetics, Material culture in literature, Art in literature, Collectors and collecting in literature, Criticism and interpretation, American literature, history and criticism
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Henry James (1843-1916)

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Table of Contents

Appreciation in the age of consumption. The rise of consumption as an aesthetic revolution; Collecting as a modern form of art appreciation; The problem of art consumption for John Ruskin
Henry James's early response to collecting. Henry James and the Ruskinian picturesque; Picturesque relics vs. renovated collectibles
Between aestheticism and naturalism. The aesthete and the naturalist as cultural commodifiers; The impossible painting and the ugly statuettes
The princess Casamassima. Unmasking the naturalist collector: Zola, Turgenev and James; A youth upon whom nothing was lost; The last sacrifice; The extending of one's horizon
Henry James's aesthetics of desire. Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"; The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson; The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire; Appreciation and interpretation
The spoils of Poynton. The buried bone and the tiny nuggets; A hindrance in the quality of the material; The method at the heart of madness
The golden bowl. Rounding off the corners of life; Small shining diamonds out of the sweepings of an ordered house; The steel hoop and the silken rope.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.

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Series
Cultural interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts -- v. 21

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813/.4
Library of Congress
PS2127.A35 F73 2010, PS2127.A35F73 2010

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vi, 209 p. ;
Number of pages
209

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OL24523694M
ISBN 13
9783034301633
LCCN
2010008635
OCLC/WorldCat
654812987

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