Aesthetic afterlives [electronic resource] : literary modernity and the concept of irony / Andrew Eastham.

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.