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Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960
Fateful Beauty Aesthetic Environments Juvenile Development and Literature 18601960
Author: Douglas Mao
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691146614
ISBN-10: 0691146616
Publication Date: 5/23/2010
Pages: 332
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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