Touring
America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism" in 1882, Oscar Wilde
brought a witty and
controversial message of
regeneration through art and beauty to a nation still shaken by the trauma of the Civil War. In this book, the first
cultural history of the
aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard shows that it was a wide-ranging popular movement resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism but advanced by visionary women. ..
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