Decadence in the Age of Modernism /

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Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all too often ends: in 1895. It argues that the decadent principles and aesthetics of Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and others continued to exert a compelling legacy on the next generation of writers...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Murray, Alex, 1980- (Editor), Hext, Kate (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
English literature.
Decadence (Literary movement)
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Modernisme (Litterature)
Decadentisme.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kate Hext and Alex Murray
  • Dainty malice : Ada Leverson and post-Victorian decadent feminism / Kristin Mahoney
  • The ugly things of Salome / Ellen Crowell
  • Decadent paths and percolations after 1895 / Nick Freeman
  • "A poetess of no mean order" : Margaret Sackville, women's poetry, and the legacy of aestheticism / Joseph Bristow
  • The queer drift of Firbank / Ellis Hanson
  • Burning the candle at both ends : Edna St. Vincent Millay's decadence / Sarah Parker
  • Woolf and Joyce, Barnes and Beckett : the legacy of decadence in major modernist novels / Vincent Sherry
  • "The woodland whose depths and whose heights were Pan's" : Swinburne and Lawrence, decadence and modernism / Howard J. Booth
  • The naughtiness of the avant-garde : Donald Evans, Claire Marie, and Tender Buttons / Douglas Mao
  • The queerness of being 1890 in 1922 : Carl Van Vechten and the new decadence / Kirsten MacLeod
  • A decadent dream deferred : Bruce Nugent and the Harlem Renaissance's queer modernity / Michele Mendelssohn.

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