A Baedeker of Decadence : Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927 / Claire Ortiz Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Claire Ortiz, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decadence (Literary movement).

European literature--19th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals-"la décadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon.Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Baedekers

Preface

1. France: Joris-Karl Huysmans

2. Ireland: George Moore

3. Italy: Gabriele D'Annunzio

4. Sweden: August Strindberg

5. England: Oscar Wilde

6. Holland: Louis Couperus

7. Norway: Arne Garborg

8. Belgium: Georges Rodenbach

9. Poland/Prussia: Stanislaw Przybyszewski

10. Finland: Karl August Tavaststjerna

11. Ireland: Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Martin Ross

12. Austria: Leopold von Andrian, Rainer Maria Rilke

13. Poland/Prussia: Stanislaw Przybyszewski

14. Wales: Arthur Machen

15. England: Bram Stoker

16. Portugal: José Maria Eça de Queirós

17. Spain: Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

18. Germany: Thomas Mann

19. Sweden: Oscar Levertin, Gustaf af Geijerstam, Hjalmar Söderberg, Kjell Strömberg

20. Denmark: Herman Bang

21. Australia: Henry Handel Richardson

22. The United States: James Gibbons Huneker

23. Iceland: Halldór Kiljan Laxness

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300159202

030015920X

OCLC:

1024018470