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1 online resource |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
| Contents |
Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall -- 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow -- 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siecle?; Meredith Martin -- 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain -- 4.'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman -- 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky -- 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A.C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo -- 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson -- 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade -- 9.'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff -- 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell |
| Summary |
Decadent Poetics has gathered together some of the most important scholars working in Victorian studies, with the ten essays here exploring the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics. Invigorated by shifts in Victorian studies over the past ten years, this collection interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. The term 'poetics' conveys here not just the prosodic, but the multiplicitous forms of cultural production across the fin de sïcle. From perfume to the post-human, theatre to attenuated textualities, these essays explore the ways in which the literary intersects with its others in the period. The range of writers studied here moves from those who now constitute a decadent canon - Oscar Wilde, 'Michael Field', Charles Baudelaire, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Ernest Dowson - to those whose work still inhabits the scholarly margins: A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen, Hubert Crackanthorpe and Graham R. Tomson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Decadence in literature.
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Poetics.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Regression (Civilization) in literature.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Regression (Civilization) in literature
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Decadence in literature
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Poetics
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hall, Jason David, 1975- editor.
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Murray, Alex, 1980- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137348296 |
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1137348291 |
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1299827810 |
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9781299827813 |
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9781137348289 |
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1137348283 |
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