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Decadence : a literary history / edited by Alex Murray.

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"Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners makes gras...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Murray, Alex, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Decadence (Literary movement)
Decadence in literature.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature and society.
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Society in literature.
1800-1999
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Alex Murray
  • Nineteenth-century Decadence and neoclassical aesthetics : androgyny and collecting culture / Daniel Orrells
  • British Decadence and Renaissance Italy / Hilary Fraser
  • 'Rather a delicate subject' : Verlaine, France and British Decadence / Matthew Creasy
  • Fighting like cats and dogs : Decadence and print media / Nick Freeman
  • Varieties of Decadent religion / Mark Knight
  • The New Woman and Decadent gender politics / Sarah Parker
  • Decadence, Darwinism, science and technological modernity / Will Abberley
  • Decadence and politics / Matthew Potolsky
  • Seeds of discord : Decadent sexuality and dissipating species / Dennis Denisoff
  • Decadent poetics after Swinburne / Catherine Maxwell
  • Theatre and Decadence / Sos Eltis
  • 'Restless Mystical Ardours' : Decadence and Music / Emma Sutton
  • Decadence in painting / Richard A. Kaye
  • Decadent poetry and translation : the suffusive and the prosodic / Clive Scott
  • Spanish American literature and the transantlantic dimensions of Decadence / María del Pilar Blanco
  • Decadent America 1890-1930 / Kirsten MacLeod
  • Russian and Czech Decadence : the fall of Rome and the destruction of Sodom / Kirsten Lodge
  • A politics of Modernism and Decadence / Vincent Sherry
  • Camp Modernism and Decadence / Kristin Mahoney
  • Making Decadence new : Carl Van Vechten's cinematic fiction / Kate Hext
  • Writing Decadent lives and letters / Ellen Crowell and Alex Murray
  • Decadence in the time of AIDS / Allan Kilner-Johnson.

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