COSTE Bénédicte, Catherine DELYFER and Christine REYNIER, eds., Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism. Continuities, Revisions, Speculations

The purpose of this volume, as clearly stated in the title, is to bridge the theoretical gap existing between aestheticism and modernism. The three editors themselves are specialists of both movements and this volume may be read as an effort to transcend categories and stereotypes and see the transition between the nineteenth century and the twentieth as a cross-fertilizing move rather than as a divide, in the literary, artistic, philosophical and economic spheres. The introduction to the vol..