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AESTETICISM Art for arts's sake, BRITAIN IN '20s 1919 - 1929 -…
AESTETICISM Art for arts's sake
main infos
XIX century (Victorian Age)
against morality and values
W. Pater
O. WILDE
1854 Dublin
works
novels
Picture of Dorian Gray
CHARACTERS
Dorian Gray
Basil Howard
Lord Henry Wottom
MEANING
dualism
beauty and surface
reality VS apprearence
immortality of ART
no typical moral BUT clar message
London XIX century
gothic atmosphere
unobtrusive thrid-person narrator
tragedy and comedy
omosexuality
BRITAIN IN '20s
1919 - 1929
contrasts
peace and prosperity
goods production for war = wealth
hedonistic lifestyle
WOMEN
economic indipendence
new confidance (men's jobs)
new masculine fashion
poverty and disillusionment
high interests rates
coal import > internal production
General Strike 1926
Labour Party
unemployment and poverty
no food
reading rooms