Decadence and the senses /

Reading Decadence is an intersensorial experience. It is to indulge in voluptuous pleasures and excruciating pains, to sample exotic tastes and sounds, and to envisage states of mind in highly sensual terms. Obsessed with extreme sensory experiences, Decadent writers identified ways of shocking the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Desmarais, Jane (Editor ), Condé, Alice (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Modern Humanities Research Association, 2017.
Temas:
1800-1899
Decadence in literature.
Decadence in art > History > 19th century.
Decadence (Literary movement) > History > 19th century.
Décadence dans la littérature.
Décadence dans l'art > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Décadentisme > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Decadence in art.
Decadence (Literary movement)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Reading Decadence is an intersensorial experience. It is to indulge in voluptuous pleasures and excruciating pains, to sample exotic tastes and sounds, and to envisage states of mind in highly sensual terms. Obsessed with extreme sensory experiences, Decadent writers identified ways of shocking the middle classes and rejecting moralism by turning the conventional notion of 'good taste' on its head. This collection of essays explores the Decadent sensorium in the work of established and less well-known Decadent writers and artists, including Rachilde, Theodore Wratislaw, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, J.-K. Huysmans, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Michael Field, Ernest Dowson, and Stéphane Mallarmé. Tracing sensual motifs and figures in the work of late nineteenth-century Decadent writers and artists, leading and emerging scholars in the field offer new and provocative insights into the Decadent imagination.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:9781781884836
1781884838

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