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The decadent republic of letters : taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley / Matthew Potolsky.

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The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than lan...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Potolsky, Matthew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
Decadence (Literary movement) > England.
Decadence (Literary movement) > France.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > France > History > 19th century.
Decadence (Literary movement)
English literature.
French literature.
Literature and society.
England.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour"
  • Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus" Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire
  • Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire
  • Chapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization
  • Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education
  • Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community
  • Postscript. Public Works Stéphane Mallarmé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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