The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns

by SarahWootton (Editor), Mark Sandy (Editor), Michael O ’ Neill (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $158.66

  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.