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Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture

Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture

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Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138268844
ISBN13: 9781138268845
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 17 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This 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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