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Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle.

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As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of Romanticism demoralized by philology. Decadent writers like Paler and Wilde and Beardslcy sought to preserve a few precious fragments from what they imagined--and paradoxically w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Dowling, Linda C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Decadence (Literary movement)
Linguistics > History > 19th century.
Philology > History > 19th century.
Neogrammarians.
Language and culture > Great Britain.
English literature.
Language and culture.
Linguistics.
Philology.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents.

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