00000cmm a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217610949273 Buklod 20130914111903.0 m o j cr |n |||auu|a 070821s2008 nju u eng d 9781400832804 (eBook) 1400832802 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00205805405 DLC DML eng DMLUC PN 761 M26 2008eb Mao, Douglas 1966- Fateful beauty [electronic resource] aesthetic environments, juvenile development, and literature 1860-1960 Douglas Mao. Princeton Princeton University Press c2008. 1 online resource (x, 319 p.) ill. IG library Recovers the lost social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. This title shows that English-language writing of the period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that environments might produce better people. IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. 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 abetted a dramatic rise in attention to environment in many discourses and in many practices affecting the lives of the young between the late nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth. Through original and detailed analyses of Wilde, Walter Pater, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Rebecca West, and W. H. Auden, Mao shows that English-language writing of the period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that beautiful environments might produce better people. He also reveals how these writers shared concerns about environment, evolution, determinism, freedom, and beauty with scientists and social theorists such as Herbert Spencer, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and W.H.R. Rivers. In so doing, Mao challenges conventional views of the roles of beauty and the aesthetic in art and life during this time. Electronic reproduction. Singapore IG Pub. c2012. Available via World Wide Web through IG Library. Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism. Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Literature and society. Literature Aesthetics. Electronic books. IG Publishing. Available for University of the Philippines System via IG Library. Click here to access http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0000748.html?sid=1385597373194&qid=1385597891415 (viewed 28 November 2013) FO Monograph UPD DMLR Electronic Resource