Fateful Beauty :: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960.

When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectua...

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1. Verfasser: Mao, Douglas
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung:When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in Wilde's day and in our own. In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. Weaving together readings in literature, psychology, biology, philosophy, education, child-rearing advice, and interior design, he shows how this idea abet.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (332 pages)
ISBN:9781400832804
1400832802
0691146616
9780691146614
0691133484
9780691133485

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