Ernest Dowson: Collected Shorter FictionMonica Borg, R. K. R. Thornton Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900) is best known as a the author of a number of exquisite lyrics which epitomise the mood and style of the English 1890s - verses like 'cynara' and 'They are not long'. Yet Arthur Symons was only repeating what Dowson often himself asserted when he said that 'Dowson was the only poet I ever knew who cared more for his prose than his verse'. Monica Borg's Introduction suggests for the first time what lay behind Dowson's opinion of the importance of his prose, seeing withing it a programme of aesthetic and cultural radicalism. She places him firmly in relation to the late-nineteenth-century crisis of values, self and representation which Dowson both expressed and sought to precipitate, and she indicates that it is in his stories rather than his verse that Dowson shows how deeply implicated he was in the politics of resistance and cultural change that characterized the decadent literary and artistic movement. This edition provides texts of all of Dowson's short stories, thoroughly corrected from the original editions and with detailed notes on their genesis and development. |
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Page vii
... Eyes of Pride 101 Countess Marie of the Angels 117 The Dying of Francis Donne 133 Notes Further Reading 147 161 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the staff of the vii Contents.
... Eyes of Pride 101 Countess Marie of the Angels 117 The Dying of Francis Donne 133 Notes Further Reading 147 161 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the staff of the vii Contents.
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... Eyes of Pride ' , January 1896 ' Countess Marie of the Angels ' , April 1896 ' The Dying of Francis Donne ' , August 1896 But Dowson may have had some principle in mind in his arrangement of the first five stories when he published them ...
... Eyes of Pride ' , January 1896 ' Countess Marie of the Angels ' , April 1896 ' The Dying of Francis Donne ' , August 1896 But Dowson may have had some principle in mind in his arrangement of the first five stories when he published them ...
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... Eyes of Pride ' and the deceptively conventional angels , nuns and madonnas who people Dowson's narratives , undermine , in dif- ferent ways , the passive womanly ideals in which middle - class culture had , throughout the nineteenth ...
... Eyes of Pride ' and the deceptively conventional angels , nuns and madonnas who people Dowson's narratives , undermine , in dif- ferent ways , the passive womanly ideals in which middle - class culture had , throughout the nineteenth ...
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... Eyes of Pride ' , Dowson mobilizes imagery of strong- willed femininity and unstable masculinity and once more he attempts to convey a sense of the psychic crises that the New Woman precipi- tated in the fin - de - siecle new man ...
... Eyes of Pride ' , Dowson mobilizes imagery of strong- willed femininity and unstable masculinity and once more he attempts to convey a sense of the psychic crises that the New Woman precipi- tated in the fin - de - siecle new man ...
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... eyes , in the old seat , the slim , girlish woman in her white dress , her hands folded in her lap , her quiet eyes ... pride , ' is the secret passage where the Due d'Alva was assassinated . ' I smiled apologetically . ' Yes , ' I said , ' I ...
... eyes , in the old seat , the slim , girlish woman in her white dress , her hands folded in her lap , her quiet eyes ... pride , ' is the secret passage where the Due d'Alva was assassinated . ' I smiled apologetically . ' Yes , ' I said , ' I ...
Contents
A Case of Conscience | 17 |
An Orchestral Violin | 31 |
Souvenirs of an Egoist | 51 |
The Statute of Limitations | 73 |
Apple Blossom in Brittany | 83 |
The Eyes of Pride | 101 |
Countess Marie of the Angels | 117 |
The Dying of Francis Donne | 133 |
Notes | 147 |
Further Reading | 161 |
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