George Moore: Spheres of Influence [Hardcover]

George Moore: Spheres of Influenceexplores Moore's work in the context of a fin-de-si?cle artistic world where inevitable controversy blooms against a backdrop of impressionist painting, literary salons, and the constraints of a society struggling to emerge from oppressive Victorian conventions and dictates.This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852-1933). With an eye to Moore's innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to 'orthodoxy', it investigates his influences and inventive strategies in novel, short story and memoir. Amongst the names emerging from the disparate spheres of impressionism, literary coteries, the paratextual and the music world are those of Manet, Mallarm?, Wilde, H?lo?se, Elgar and Bourdieu, all with Moorian links. Contested depictions of religion and nationalism simmer; France and French influences encompass fin-de-si?cle stories and medieval texts; epistolary details evidence vital parental support; contemporary authors write back to Moore. These voyages of discovery enter the fields of feminist scholarship and the New Woman, life writing and letters, fin-de-si?cle aesthetics, intersections between art, music and literature, and literary transitions from Victorian to Modern. Valuably, the authors suggest numerous opportunities for additional research in these areas, as well as within Moore studies. This collection, with contributions from an international set of established and new scholars, delivers fresh and original findings as it builds on the substantial and ever-growing corpus of Moore studies.Introduction

I. Artistic Influences and Approaches

The French Artist as Father, Muse and Rival in Memoirs of My Dead Life
Ann Heilmann

Superfluous Irish Gentry: Moore and Turgenev
M?rta Pell?rdi

Literature, Music, Art and the Salon: George Moore's Perel³2