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Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
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Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British
Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in
his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his
contributions to Victorian poetry. O'Shaughnessy's engagement with
aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian theory can be traced to his
career as a Junior Assistant at the British Museum, and his
perception of the burden of having to earn a living outside of art.
Making use of extensive archival research, Jordan Kistler
demonstrates that far from being merely a minor poet, O'Shaughnessy
was at the forefront of later Victorian avant-garde poetry. Her
analyses of published and unpublished writings, including
correspondence, poetic manuscripts, and scientific notebooks,
demonstrate O'Shaughnessy's importance to the cultural milieu of
the 1870s, particularly his contributions to English aestheticism,
his role in the importation of decadence from France, and his
unique position within contemporary debates on science and
literature.
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