Nearly every major figure of his era writes his biographer Adrian Frazier worked with Moore tangled with Moore took his impression from or left it on George Moore. The AngloIrish novelist George Moore 18521933 espoused multiple identities. An agent provocateur whether as an art critic novelist short fiction writer or memoirist always probing and provocative often deliberately controversial the personality at the core of this book invented himself as he reinvented his contemporary world. Moores key roleas observerparticipant and as satiristwithin many literary and aesthetic movements at the end of the Victorian period and into the twentieth century owed considerably to the structures and manners of collaboration that he embraced. This book throws into relief the multiple ways in which Moores work can serve as a counterbalance to established understandings of late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury literary aesthetics both through innovative scholarly readings of Moores work and through illustrative case studies of Moores collaborative practice by making available for the first time two manuscript plays he coauthored with Pearl Craigie John Oliver Hobbes in 1894. It is this collaborative practice in conjunction with his cosmopolitan outlook that turned Moore into a key player in the findesiecle formation of an international aesthetic community. This book explores the full range of Moores collaborations and cultural encounters from 1870s Paris art exhibitions to turnofthecentury Dublin and London from gossip to the culture of the barmaid from the worship of Balzac to the fraught engagement with Yeats from music to Celtic cultural translation. Moores reputation as a collaborator with the most significant artistic individuals of his time in Britain Ireland and France in particular but also in Europe more widely provides a rich exposition of modes of exchange and influence in the period and a unique and distinctive perspective on Moore himself. show more