Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

Lindsay Wilhelm (Oklahoma State University)

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Cambridge University Press
12 December 2024

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Philosophy: aesthetics; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and utility and rallied under the banner of 'art for art's sake', are often associated with hedonism and purposelessness. However, as Lindsay Wilhelm shows, aestheticism may have been more closely related to nineteenth-century ideas of progress and scientific advancement than we think. This book illuminates an important intellectual alliance between aestheticism and evolutionism in late-nineteenth-century Britain, putting aesthetic writers such as Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater into dialogue with scientific thinkers such as Darwin and mathematician W. K. Clifford. Considering in particular how Aestheticism and scientific thinking converged on utopian ideas about beauty, Lindsay Wilhelm reveals how this evolutionary aestheticism crucially shaped Victorian debates about individual pleasure and social progress that continue to resonate today.

By: Lindsay Wilhelm (Oklahoma State University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009469357
ISBN 10: 1009469355
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lindsay Wilhelm is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University. Her major research and teaching interests include aestheticism and decadence, literature and science, and the Victorian Pacific. She has published articles on these and related topics in Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the LA Review of Books, and other venues.