Swinburne reads Keats: Prostitution, pornography and the decadence of aesthetic critique

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Abstract
Keats and Swinburne loom large as purveyors of the “aesthetic” in its early and late nineteenth-century forms—that is, as a discourse of subject-formation through the exercise of tasteful distinction and as a self-referential discourse of art for art’s sake, respectively. In this essay, I analyse how Swinburne constructs a “Keats” that will allow him to master a “manliness in crisis” that affected both writers. If this “crisis” is historicized by the body as a social matter that Victorian legislators were policing in the forms of prostitution and pornography, it is, I argue, this materiality that Keats and Swinburne insist of enjoying rather than sublimating. The ultimate question I pose is this: can aesthetics become the critical discourse that recent revisionary readings have postulated if both a Romantic and a Decadent aesthetic insist on enjoying the body, materiality, gender instability and other topoi communicated by prostitution, pornography and poetry.
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Authors Gonsalves, Joshua David;
Journal cogent arts & humanities
Year 2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2015.1006422
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Nursing Medicine Literature (General) general works psychology public aspects of medicine history of scholarship and learning. the humanities social sciences arctic medicine. tropical medicine criminal law and procedure communication. mass media recreation. leisure fine arts arts in general religions. mythology. rationalism modern history, 1453- medieval history journalism. the periodical press, etc.

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