Kristin Mahoney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Mahoney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahoney |
| SIGNATURE | MAHONEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2908-0363 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Special Cluster: Primitive Marriage in Modern Times
This cluster of short essays discusses Kathy Psomiades’s Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel and Sexual Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2023), winner of the North American Victorian Studies Association’s 2023 Subsequent Book Prize, along with a response from the author
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 , by Dennis Denisoff
The epilogue to Dennis Denisoff’s Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 recalls the preface to Michael Field’s Sight and Song (1892) in its expression of a commitment to “a passive mode of scholarship” that operates at a “threshold of intimacy and submission” with a “willingness to be written upon” (224). Much as Michael Field hoped that their suppression of the habit of centering the self might engender a clearer vision of an…
Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family
The Decadent Novel: Generic Inversions
This article argues that the decadent novel purposefully inverts the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Rather than developing bourgeois interiority, cultivating moral sympathy, and promoting conventional ideologies of gender and romance, the decadent novel focuses on detached individuals and damaging forms of desire. Refusing to provide reassuring narratives that reinforce myths of progress or camouflage the fractured, fraught …
Nancy Cunard And the afterlives of decadent desire
While Nancy Cunard is often understood in relation to the modernist and surrealist circles in which she moved in the early-twentieth century, as Jane Marcus’s recent work on Cunard indicates, her connections with late-Victorian aestheticism and decadent modernism were also quite strong. The decadent modernist Norman Douglas was a particularly significant influence on Cunard. This essay considers the manner in which decadent eroticism and Oriental…
Taking Wilde to Sri Lanka and Beardsley to Harlem: Decadent Practice, Race, and Orientalism
This article examines the reworking of decadence by writers of color in the early twentieth century, focusing on the uses to which the Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent and the Sri Lankan writer Lionel de Fonseka put decadent style while engaging in anticolonial critique and contesting rigid categories of power and identity. I read the implementation of decadent aesthetics by Nugent and de Fonseka as a form of criticism that teases o…
Decadence
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The “Transition to Modernism”: Recent Research on the Victorian/Modern Divide
This article surveys new scholarship that straddles the Victorian/Modern divide, reading this work within the context of questions about the usefulness of the terms “Victorian” and “modernist.” Recent work that traces lines of continuity between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reveals the sustained conversations taking place across the century's turn. Consideration of the transnational and global circulation of aesthetic ideals, which broa…
Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics , edited by Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham
Reviewed by: Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics Kristin Mahoney (bio) Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics, edited by Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham; pp. x + 189. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, £45.00, $69.95. While a number of Victorian authors felt comfortable wearing several generic and disciplinary hats, Vernon Lee's interests and positions were particularly multiple. Consequently, a recurring concern v…
The “Transition to Modernism”: Recent Research on the Victorian/Modern Divide
This article surveys new scholarship that straddles the Victorian/Modern divide, reading this work within the context of questions about the usefulness of the terms “Victorian” and “modernist.” Recent work that traces lines of continuity between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reveals the sustained conversations taking place across the century's turn. Consideration of the transnational and global circulation of aesthetic ideals, which broa…
Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics , edited by Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham
Reviewed by: Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics Kristin Mahoney (bio) Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics, edited by Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham; pp. x + 189. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, £45.00, $69.95. While a number of Victorian authors felt comfortable wearing several generic and disciplinary hats, Vernon Lee's interests and positions were particularly multiple. Consequently, a recurring concern v…
The “Transition to Modernism”: Recent Research on the Victorian/Modern Divide
This article surveys new scholarship that straddles the Victorian/Modern divide, reading this work within the context of questions about the usefulness of the terms “Victorian” and “modernist.” Recent work that traces lines of continuity between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reveals the sustained conversations taking place across the century's turn. Consideration of the transnational and global circulation of aesthetic ideals, which broa…
Decadence
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Decadent Novel: Generic Inversions
This article argues that the decadent novel purposefully inverts the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Rather than developing bourgeois interiority, cultivating moral sympathy, and promoting conventional ideologies of gender and romance, the decadent novel focuses on detached individuals and damaging forms of desire. Refusing to provide reassuring narratives that reinforce myths of progress or camouflage the fractured, fraught …
Nancy Cunard And the afterlives of decadent desire
While Nancy Cunard is often understood in relation to the modernist and surrealist circles in which she moved in the early-twentieth century, as Jane Marcus’s recent work on Cunard indicates, her connections with late-Victorian aestheticism and decadent modernism were also quite strong. The decadent modernist Norman Douglas was a particularly significant influence on Cunard. This essay considers the manner in which decadent eroticism and Oriental…
Taking Wilde to Sri Lanka and Beardsley to Harlem: Decadent Practice, Race, and Orientalism
This article examines the reworking of decadence by writers of color in the early twentieth century, focusing on the uses to which the Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent and the Sri Lankan writer Lionel de Fonseka put decadent style while engaging in anticolonial critique and contesting rigid categories of power and identity. I read the implementation of decadent aesthetics by Nugent and de Fonseka as a form of criticism that teases o…
Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 , by Dennis Denisoff
The epilogue to Dennis Denisoff’s Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 recalls the preface to Michael Field’s Sight and Song (1892) in its expression of a commitment to “a passive mode of scholarship” that operates at a “threshold of intimacy and submission” with a “willingness to be written upon” (224). Much as Michael Field hoped that their suppression of the habit of centering the self might engender a clearer vision of an…
Special Cluster: Primitive Marriage in Modern Times
This cluster of short essays discusses Kathy Psomiades’s Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel and Sexual Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2023), winner of the North American Victorian Studies Association’s 2023 Subsequent Book Prize, along with a response from the author
Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Decadence (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)