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This significant collection of essays examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature. Contributors use the works of Charles Dickens, T S Eliot, W H Auden and Stephen Spender among others to explore the role of beauty and its wider implications in art and society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Female Beauty and Portraits of Self-Effacement in Charlotte Brontë's
- 2 Dickens and the Line of Beauty
- 3 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial
- 4 The Beauties of T. S. Eliot
- 5 'The Enigmatical Beauty of Each Beautiful Enigma': The Persistence of Beauty and Death in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens
- 6 W. H. Auden: The Loveliness that Is the Case
- 7 Something in the Works: Frost, Bishop and the Idea of Beauty
- 8 The Difficulty of Beauty: Hopkins, Yeats, Hart Crane, Spender
- 9 'Beauty in Trouble': Robert Graves and Louis MacNeice
- 10 Beauty Is Death
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Index