Decadence : a literary history / edited by Alex Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Alex, 1980- editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decadence (Literary movement).

Decadence in literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 415 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 17, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Decadence

ISBN:

9781108640527

1108640524

9781108610780

1108610781

Publisher Number:

99985881061

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.