| The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope. |
| A mania for things Asian raged in England then, in concert with the aestheticist movement — a reaction, exalting unalloyed beauty, against the moralistic constraints of Victorian taste. |
| He thinks Dewey has an idealized view of art that borrows from the very aestheticist theories he criticizes, and that Dewey does not sufficiently question the boundaries of art. |
