Giles Whiteley is Professor of English Literature at Stockholm University. He has published widely on the literature of the long nineteenth-century, with a particular focus on aestheticism and decadence. He is the author of four monographs including, most recently, The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907 (2020). Other recent publications include the three-volume edition Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2024). He is currently editing Walter Pater’s historical novel Marius the Epicurean.

The Aesthetics of Space is a valuable voice in the ongoing conversation around literary and cultural modernity in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

• Prologue: Joris-Karl Huysmans, or ‘After Dickens’Introduction: The Spatial Turn1. John Ruskin: Towards a Theoretics of Space2. Charles Dickens: After Realism3. Walter Pater: Towards an Aesthetics of Space4. Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitan Space5. Henry James: Modern SpaceConclusion: Unreal Cities: Towards ModernismIndex

Giles Whiteley is Professor of English Literature at Stockholm University. He has published widely on the literature of the long nineteenth-century, with a particular focus on aestheticism and decadence. He is the author of four monographs including, most recently, The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907 (2020). Other recent publications include the three-volume edition Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2024). He is currently editing Walter Pater’s historical novel Marius the Epicurean.

The Aesthetics of Space is a valuable voice in the ongoing conversation around literary and cultural modernity in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

• Prologue: Joris-Karl Huysmans, or ‘After Dickens’Introduction: The Spatial Turn1. John Ruskin: Towards a Theoretics of Space2. Charles Dickens: After Realism3. Walter Pater: Towards an Aesthetics of Space4. Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitan Space5. Henry James: Modern SpaceConclusion: Unreal Cities: Towards ModernismIndex