Decadence and Literature / edited by Jane Desmarais, David Weir.

Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors:	Desmarais, Jane (Editor), Weir, David (Editor)
Other title:	Decadence & Literature
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:	Cambridge critical concepts.
Subjects:	Literary theory. English literature. Literature. History.