Abstract “The Gospels of Aestheticism” examines the ways in which late-nineteenth-century
British advocates of art for art's sake regarded the study of beauty as an exercise in personal …

Though one of the youngest educational establishments for higher learning in the United
States, the Catholic University of America has achieved wondrous results in the academic …

Abstract The Poetry of Religion and the Prose of Life: From Evangelicalism to Immanence in
British Women's Writing, 1835-1925” traces a tradition of religious women poets and …

This dissertation proposes that the non-fiction prose writing of several prominent British fin
de siècle Aesthetes was animated by an ethos of retreat: an investment in various modes of …

In the middle of her career, Alice Meynell (1847–1922), the influential English poet, essayist,
and fin de siècle literary salonnière who would twice be nominated for poet laureate, began …