Beauty and the beast: Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R.L. Stevenson and their contemporaries

290 Pages·1995·27.939 MB·English

by  Pieter LIEBREGTS

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STUDIES IN LITERATURE 19
Series Editors
C.C. Barfoot-M. Buning .-AJ. Hoenselaars
W.M. Verhoeven
Associate Editors
P.Th.M.G. Liebregts-A. H. van der Weel

Beauty
and
The Beast
Christina Rossetti,
Walter Pater, R.L. Stevenson
and their Contemporaries
Edited by
Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges
Amsterdam -Atlanta, GA
1996
ISBN 90-5183-902-2 (bound) (CIP)
Cover design: Hendrik van Delft
© Editions Rodopi B.V.
Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA 1996
Printed in The Netherlands
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 1
1 Wim Tigges
Introduction: Beauty and the Beast 3
2 C.C. Barfoot
Christina Rossetti In and Out of Grace 7
3 Jan Marsh
The Spider's Shadow: Christina Rossetti
and the Dark Double Within 21
4 Valeria Tinkler-Villani
Christina Rossetti's Italian Poems 31
5 Amanda Gilroy
Christina Rossetti: Sisters, Brothers
and the "Other Woman" 43
6 Peter van de Kamp
Wrapped in a Dream: Katharine Tynan
and Christina Rossetti 59
7 Billie Andrew Inman
Walter Pater's Versatility as a Critic 99
8 Laurel Brake
After Studies; Walter Pater's Cancelled
Book, or Dionysus and Gay Discourse in the 1870s 115
9 Peter Costello
Walter Pater, George Moore and R.L. Stevenson 127
10 Ans Kabel
The Influence of Walter Pater in Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray 139
11 DouglasS. Mack
Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde, and Count Dracula 149
12 Tim Youngs
Stevenson's Monkey-Business: The Strange
Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 157
13 Neil Cornwell
Two Visionary Storytellers of 1894:
R.L. Stevenson and Anton Chekhov 171
14 Sjef Houppermans
Robert, Alexandre, Marcel, Henri, Jean
et les Autres: R.L. Stevenson and His
"French Connections" 187
15 Jacques B.H. Alblas
The Early Production and Reception of Stevenson's
Work in England and the Netherlands 209
16 John Stokes
Oscar Wilde: The Beginning of the End 221
17 Susan de Sola Rodstein
Kipling's Decadent Empire: The Light that
Failed and the Fin-de-Siecle 233
18 Cobi Bordewijk
Brutality Under the Mask of Elegance:
Fin-de-Siecle Vienna in Arthur Schnitzler's Drama 249
19 Jacqueline Bel
Louis Couperus, the Dutch Oscar Wilde,
On Beauties and Beasts 259
20 Frederik van Eeden
On Stevenson and Pater 271
Notes on Contributors 277

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors' gratitude is extended to the British Council in the
Netherlands, the Irish Embassy in the Netherlands, the Dutch Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the Leiden
University Foundation, the Arts Faculty of the University of Leiden, and
Editions Rodopi, who have all generously contributed to our funds. We
also wish to thank all contributors to the volume, both for the quality and
variety of their papers and for submitting to the editorial pressure we
have occasionally felt it our auty to exert. Last, but not least, we are
grateful to our colleagues, students and other interested members of the
conference audience, without whose presence this project would not have
been realized, and whose comments and queries during and after sessions
were highly appreciated.