AESTHETICISM AND SEXUAL PARODY 1840-1940 by Denisoff, Dennis ISBN 0521800390
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Studies the concept of parody as a strategy used by sexually marginalized groups.
This original and provocative study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting Victorian popular culture, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds a new and important dimension to the theorisations of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalised groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert's drama and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood's prose to George Du Maurier's cartoons and Max Beerbohm's caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the parodies' interactions with the personae and texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. In doing so, he considers the impact that these interactions had on modern ideas of gender, sexuality, taste and politics.
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[edit] Title
AESTHETICISM AND SEXUAL PARODY 1840-1940
[edit] Author
Denisoff, Dennis
[edit] ISBN
0521800390
[edit] Published
02/07/2001
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
40 (GBP)
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