Nineteenth Century Aesthetics Of Murder
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| Author | : Anhiti Patnaik |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2018 |
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| ISBN | : |
This dissertation examines how sex crime and serial killing became a legitimate subject of aesthetic representation and mass consumption in the nineteenth century. It also probes into the ethical implications of deriving pleasure fromconsumingsuch graphic representations of violence. Taking off from Jack the Ripper and the iconic Whitechapel murders of 1888, it argues thata new cultural paradigm ?the aesthetics of murder?was invented in England and France.To study the?aesthetics of murder?as countless influential critics have done is not to question whether an act of murder itself possesses beautiful or subblime qualities. Rather, it is to determine precisely howa topic as evil and abject as murder ismade beautiful in a work of art. It also questions what is at stake ethically for the reader or spectator who bears witness to such incommensurable violence. In three chapters, this dissertation delves into three important tropes ?the murderer, corpse, and witness ?through which this aesthetics of murder is analyzed. By examining a wide intersection of visual, literary, and cultural texts from the English and French tradition, it ultimately seeks to effect a rapprochement between nineteenth-century ethics and aesthetics. The primary artists and writers under investigationare Charles Baudelaire, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, and Walter Sickert. In bringing together their distinctive styles and aesthetic philosophies, the dissertation opts for an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. It also aims to absolve these vwriters and artists from a longstanding charge of immorality and degeneracy, by firmly maintaining that the aestheticsof murder does not necessarily glorify or justify the act of murder. The third chapter on the ?witness? in fact, elucidates how writers like De Quincey and Wilde transferred the ethical imperative from the writer to the reader. The reader is appointed in the role of a murder witness who accidentally discovered the corpse on the crime scene. As a traumatized subject, the reader thus develops an ethicalobligation for justice and censorship.Keywords: Murderer, Corpse, Witness, Aesthetics, Ethics, Censorship, Abject,Sublime,Differend, Catharsis,Trauma, Victorian, Romantic, Decadent,Wilde,Baudelaire,DeQuincey,Sickert.
| Author | : Joel Black |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1991-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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"What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism." -- Book cover.
| Author | : Simon Maguire |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429773196 |
First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto. Many of the writers considered are unfamiliar today, but they express the accepted views on music, opera, and singing that dominated a particularly insular tradition. This title will be of interest to students of Italian and Music History.
| Author | : Giles Whiteley |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2020-03-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1474443745 |
Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century.
| Author | : V. Nagy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2015-02-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137359307 |
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary debates, the focus is not on whether the women were guilty or innocent, but rather on what English society during this period made of their trials and what stereotypes and stock-stories were used to describe women who used arsenic to kill. All three women were initially presented as 'bad' women but as the book illustrates there was no clear consensus on what exactly constituted bad womanhood.
| Author | : Heather Worthington |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2005-05-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230506283 |
Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, including Collins and Dickens, drew on this material, found in texts that have rarely been reprinted or even discussed. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction. This is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just fascinated by crime fiction.
| Author | : Hilary Fraser |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2017-07-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1315505355 |
Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works the cultural, social, literary and political life of the twentieth century - a period of great intellectual activity - can be charted, discussed and assessed. For the first time, an inclusive critical survey of nineteenth-century non-fiction is presented, that traces the century's ideological and cultural upheavals as they are registered in the literary textures of some of its most widely read and influential writings.The book explores the relations between writers who are generally perceived as occupying different discursive spheres, for example between John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton; between Cardinal Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell and Hannah Cullwick; and between Charles Darwin, David Livingstone and Henry Mayhew. The establishment and development of different genres and their interactions over the century are clearly mapped. The genre of the periodical essay, a distinctively modern and flexible form catering to the mass readership, is the subject of the introduction, and then more specialist fields are discussed, covering scientific writing, travel and exploration literature, social reportage, biography, autobiography, journals, letters, religious and philosophical prose, political writing and history.
| Author | : Lisa Downing |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2013-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022600340X |
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen—a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys only the destructive urge, sometimes even commanding cult followings. In contemporary culture, we continue to believe that there is something different and exceptional about killers, but is the murderer such a distinctive type? Are they degenerate beasts or supermen as they have been depicted on the page and the screen? Or are murderers something else entirely? In The Subject of Murder, Lisa Downing explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity. Drawing on the work of Foucault in her studies of the lives and crimes of killers in Europe and the United States, Downing interrogates the meanings of media and texts produced about and by murderers. Upending the usual treatment of murderers as isolated figures or exceptional individuals, Downing argues that they are ordinary people, reflections of our society at the intersections of gender, agency, desire, and violence.
| Author | : Dana Brand |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1991-10-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521362078 |
Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.
| Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009-03-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0199539049 |
Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey coolly dissects the art of murder and its perfections, in a mixture of reportage, black satire, and aesthetic criticism. The volume also contains 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' and De Quincey's finest tale of terror, 'The Avenger'.
