Michèle Mendelssohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michèle Mendelssohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michèle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendelssohn |
| SIGNATURE | MENDELSSOHN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0487-5536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI
Present-day developments in artificial intelligence herald an explosion of the artificial, an expansion of the fabricated across many domains of human activity. The worship of artifice has long been a central thread in studies of modernity from aestheticism and decadence through postmodernism. Oscar Wilde has been a central figure in this conversation. At the turn of the century, Wilde recombined strands inherited from French and American sources…
The Melodrama of Cynthia Ozick’s Imagination
Dualistic energies ripple throughout Ozick’s writing. Her attraction to good and evil, light and dark, the agonistic and the operatic, the Zarathustrian and the Wagnerian, is undeniable. This article focuses on the literary dimensions of her nonfiction to shed light on her essays’ mysterious powers. By eschewing the habitual liturgical framing of Ozick’s works for a literary one, this article anatomizes her methods to reveal the precursor form th…
Rewriting the Genealogy of Minstrelsy for Modernity: Cry and Sing, Walk and Rage, Scream and Dance
W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess (1928) pointedly uses Spirituals and dandyism to interrogate cultural hierarchies. This essay highlights the shared genealogy between early twentieth-century African American writing and two bifurcating branches of nineteenth-century dandyism: the European tradition of Baudelaire and Wilde and the blackface tradition of the minstrel show. Tracing these lines of transmission reveals an unexamined embranchment of li…
Beautiful Souls Mixed Up With Hooked Noses: Art, Degeneration, and Anti-Semitism in the Master and Trilby
The diagnosis made by Dr P. C. Remondino , M.D. was unambiguous. “ Trilby is a masterpiece when viewed in the light of a study in heredity,” he announced in the pages of Practical Medicine in 1895. “Du Maurier has given us . . . the well digested results of a careful as well as discriminating study. . . . Neither Darwin, [nor] Galton, . . . could have given us a more comprehensive or more lucid study of the subject. Neither could Maudsley” (380–8…
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and moralityThis book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late nineteent…
Rewriting the Genealogy of Minstrelsy for Modernity: Cry and Sing, Walk and Rage, Scream and Dance
W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess (1928) pointedly uses Spirituals and dandyism to interrogate cultural hierarchies. This essay highlights the shared genealogy between early twentieth-century African American writing and two bifurcating branches of nineteenth-century dandyism: the European tradition of Baudelaire and Wilde and the blackface tradition of the minstrel show. Tracing these lines of transmission reveals an unexamined embranchment of li…
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and moralityThis book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late nineteent…
Beautiful Souls Mixed Up With Hooked Noses: Art, Degeneration, and Anti-Semitism in the Master and Trilby
The diagnosis made by Dr P. C. Remondino , M.D. was unambiguous. “ Trilby is a masterpiece when viewed in the light of a study in heredity,” he announced in the pages of Practical Medicine in 1895. “Du Maurier has given us . . . the well digested results of a careful as well as discriminating study. . . . Neither Darwin, [nor] Galton, . . . could have given us a more comprehensive or more lucid study of the subject. Neither could Maudsley” (380–8…
Rewriting the Genealogy of Minstrelsy for Modernity: Cry and Sing, Walk and Rage, Scream and Dance
W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess (1928) pointedly uses Spirituals and dandyism to interrogate cultural hierarchies. This essay highlights the shared genealogy between early twentieth-century African American writing and two bifurcating branches of nineteenth-century dandyism: the European tradition of Baudelaire and Wilde and the blackface tradition of the minstrel show. Tracing these lines of transmission reveals an unexamined embranchment of li…
The Melodrama of Cynthia Ozick’s Imagination
Dualistic energies ripple throughout Ozick’s writing. Her attraction to good and evil, light and dark, the agonistic and the operatic, the Zarathustrian and the Wagnerian, is undeniable. This article focuses on the literary dimensions of her nonfiction to shed light on her essays’ mysterious powers. By eschewing the habitual liturgical framing of Ozick’s works for a literary one, this article anatomizes her methods to reveal the precursor form th…
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI
Present-day developments in artificial intelligence herald an explosion of the artificial, an expansion of the fabricated across many domains of human activity. The worship of artifice has long been a central thread in studies of modernity from aestheticism and decadence through postmodernism. Oscar Wilde has been a central figure in this conversation. At the turn of the century, Wilde recombined strands inherited from French and American sources…
Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Decadence, Literature, and Society (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · 19th century (1 works) · Aestheticism (1 works)