Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European CultureThis collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium. |
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Contents
Changing Responses to the Urban | |
Political Theory and Political | |
Decadence Divinity | |
Dickensian Decadents | |
Defining Decadence in Nineteenthcentury French and British | |
John Meade Falkners The Lost | |
Decadence Reform and the Colonial Vision | |
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| Title | Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture Studies in European Cultural Transition |
| Author | Michael St John |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1351902563, 9781351902564 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature |
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