Perennial Decay : On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance /
When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for dest...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Interversions
- Chapter 2. Unknowing Decadence
- Chapter 3. Decadent Paradoxes
- Chapter 4. Posing a Threat
- Chapter 5. Decadent Critique
- Chapter 6. Opera and the Discourse of Decadence
- Chapter 7. Spaces of the Demimonde/Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-I990
- Chapter 8. "Comment Peut-on Être Homosexuel?"
- Chapter 9. The Politics of Posing
- Chapter 10. Improper Names
- Chapter 11. Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body
- Chapter 12. Pale Imitations
- Chapter 13. "Golden Mediocrity"
- Chapter 14. Fetishizing Writing
- Chapter 15. Ce "Bazar Intellectual"
- Contributors
- Index


