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Walter Pater's acoustic space: 'the school of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, and the politics of soundscape -- Aesthetic vampirism: Pater, Wilde, and the concept of irony -- 'Master of irony': Henry James, transatlantic bildung and the critique of aestheticism -- Irony's turn: the redress of aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's notebooks and stories -- Sacrificing aestheticism: irony and the dialectics of modernity in D.H. Lawrence's The rainbow and Women in love -- Aristocracies of mourning: re-consecrating aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited -- Sublime ironies: Samuel Becket and the remainders of romanticism -- Inoperative ironies: Jamesian aestheticism and post-modern culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- The aesthetic afterlives of Mr W.P.: reanimating Pater in twenty first century fiction. |
