Swinburne reads Keats: Prostitution, pornography and the decadence of aesthetic critique
Keats and Swinburne loom large as purveyors of the “aesthetic” in its early and late nineteenth-century forms—that is, as a discourse of subject-formation through the exercise of tasteful distinction and as a self-referential discourse of art for art’s sake, respectively. In this essay, I analyse ho...
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Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2015-12-01
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Series: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2015.1006422 |