The Oxford handbook of decadence / edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
"The meaning of decadence varies with context, depending on what (or who) is understood to have declined, decayed, or degenerated. These negative meanings are familiar from history (the decline and fall of Rome), sociology (the decay of communities), morality (the degeneration of values), and m...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Decadence, Culture, and Society / David Weir and Jane Desmarais
- Part I: Periods. 1. Classical Antiquity : Unlikely Decadent Prototypes in Republican Rome / Shushma Malik ; 2. Ages of Empire : Pinnacles of Decline / Norman Vance ; 3. Fin de Siècle, Gilded Age, or Belle Époque : Different Endings to the Same Century / Shearer West ; 4. The Interwar Period : Legacies of Decadence / Melanie Hawthorne ; 5. Contemporary Contexts : Decadence Today and Tomorrow / Alice Condé
- Part II: Places. 6. France : The Rise of Modern Decadence / Bénédicte Coste ; 7. Belgium : Decadent Land, Barbarian Language / Clément Dessy ; 8. Britain and Ireland : Decadence Beyond London / Alex Murray ; 9. Italy : Decadent Dichotomies in a Disruptive Age / Lara Raffaelli ; 10. Germany : Decadence from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Weimar Republic / Katharina Herold ; 11. Nordic Cultures : From Wilderness to Metropolitan Decadence / Pirjo Lyytikäinen ; 12. Eastern Europe : The "New People" of Decadence / Sasha Dovzhyk ; 13. Turkey : Ottoman Tanzimat and the Decadence of Empire / Özen Nergis Dolcerocca ; 14. Japan : Decadence and Japonisme / Stefano Evangelista
- Part III: Genres. 15. The Decadent Novel : Generic Inversions / Kristin Mahoney ; 16. The Decadent Short Story : Forms of the Morbid / Kostas Boyiopoulos ; 17. Decadent Theater : New Women and "The Eye of the Beholder" / Sos Eltis ; 18. Essays : Defending and Describing Decadence / Nick Freeman ; 19. Prose Poetry : All the Rest Is Literature / Jane Desmarais and David Weir ; 20. Cinema : Adapting Decadence / David Weir
- Part IV: Materialities. 21. Book Arts : The Decadent Gesamtkunstwerk / Kirsten MacLeod ; 22. Fashion : Decadent Stylings / Catherine Spooner ; 23. Interior Decoration : Designing Decadence / Jessica Gossling ; 24. Architecture : Constructing Decadence / Lori Smithey
- Part V: Senses. 25. Vision : Decadence in Symbolist Art of the Fin de Siècle / Vivien Greene ; 26. Hearing : Bodies Resounding in Decadent Literature / Fraser Riddell ; 27. Smell : Perfume and Olfaction / Catherine Maxwell ; 28. Taste : Savoring Decadence / David Weir and Jane Desmarais ; 29. Touch : Unfeeling Decadence / Jane Desmarais
- Part VI: Theories. 30. Theology : Decadent Aesthetics, Anglo-Catholicism, and Ritual / Matthew Bradley ; 31. Science : Entropy, Degeneration, and Decadent Self-Destruction / Jordan Kistler ; 32. Ecology : The Vital Forces of Decay / Dennis Denisoff ; 33. Philosophy : Post-Kantian Narratives of Decadence / Andrew Huddleston ; 34. Psychoanalysis : From Degeneration to Regeneration / Jean-Michel Rabaté ; 35. Politics : Ideologies of Decadence / Neville Morley.