Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements / Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges -- Introduction: Beauty and the Beast / Wim Tigges -- Christina Rossetti in and Out of Grace / C.C. Barfoot -- Christina Rossetti: Sisters, Brothers and the "Other Woman" / Amanda Gilroy -- Wrapped in a Dream: Katharine Tynan and Christina Rossetti / Peter van De Kamp -- Walter Pater's Versatility as a Critic / Billie Andrew Inman -- After Studies: Walter Pater's Cancelled Book, or Dionysus and Gay Discourse in the 1870s / Laurel Brake -- Walter Pater, George Moore and R.L. Stevenson / Peter Costello -- The Influence of Walter Pater in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Picture of Dorian Gray / Ans Kabel -- Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde, and Count Dracula / Douglas S. Mack -- Stevenson's Monkey-Business: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyu and Mr Hyde / Tim Youngs -- Two Visionary Storytellers Of 1894: R.L. Stevenson and Anton Chekhov / Neil Cornwell -- Robert, Alexandre, Marcel, Henri, Jean Et Les Autres: R.L. Stevenson and his "French Connections" / Sjef Houppermans -- The Early Production and Reception of Stevenson's Work in England and the Netherlands / Jacques B.H. Alblas -- Oscar Wilde: The Beginning of the end / John Stokes -- Kipling's Decadent Empire: The Light That Failed and the Fin-De-Siècle / Susan de Sola Rodstein -- Brutality Under The Mask of Elegance: Fin-De-Siècle Vienna in Arthur Schnitzler's Drama / Cobi Bordewijk -- Louis Couperus, the Dutch Oscar Wilde, on Beauties and Beasts / Jacqueline Bel -- Frederik van Eeden on Stevenson and Pater / Wim Tigges -- Notes on Contributors / Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges.

1994 marked the centenary of the deaths of Walter Pater, Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson, and Beauty and the Beast is largely devoted to an exploration of aspects of their lives and their writings, and the role they played in the development of British literature. Both individually and as a group, these writers offer interesting opportunities to investigate a distinctive ambivalence in the literature of the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Thus we may observe how Pater as the founder of Aestheticism in British literature addressed the Victorian dilemma how to live in Marius the Epicurean ; how Rossetti's poetry expresses both spiritual and erotic tendencies, while Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is perhaps the epitome of the fin-de-siècle tension between good and evil, beauty and beast. Yet the scope of this book also includes an examination of the relationships between these three authors and their contemporaries, and of their setting, on the British Isles as well as on the Continent. Thus George Moore makes his appearance, next to Anton Chekhov, Arthur Schnitzler, Oscar Wilde, Alain Fournier and Louis Couperus. The various discussions of these French, German, Russian, Italian, Irish and Dutch connections in this book reflect the international setting of the European fin-de-siècle as a background against which the theme of Beauty and the Beast is discussed. .

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