Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature : Second, Revised and Expanded Edition.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Ibidem Verlag,
2014.
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Series: | Studies in English literatures.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Containing the Poisonous Text: Decadent Readers, Reading Decadence; Arthur Symons' Decadent Aesthetics: Stéphane Mallarmé and the Dancer Revisited; Cultural Decline and Alienation in Vernon Lee's "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady"; A Decadent Discord: "George Egerton"; Gratifying a Divine Instinct: Sarah Stickney Ellison Pleasure-Seeking and Feminine Morals; "Lifeless, inane, dawdling": Decadence, Femininity and Olive Schreiner's Woman and Labour; The Perversion of Decadence: The Cases of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and Salome
- A Moment's Fixation: Aesthetic Time and Dialectical ProgressDecadence in Post-Colonial British Dystopias; "Lascivious Dialect": Decadent Rhetoric and the Early-Modern Pornographer; Dandies, Libertines, and Byronic Lovers: Pornography and Erotic Decadence in Nineteenth-Century England; Sexual Literary Freedom vs. Societal Hypocrisy and Ignorance: Aleister Crowley and the Artistic Challenge; Discourse of Pathology and the Vitalistic Desire for Unity in Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book; The Obscure Camera: Decadence and Moral Anxiety in Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin
- Permissive Paradise: The Fiction of Swinging LondonBeowulf: Always Already Decadent; Derek Mahon: "A decadent who lived to tell the story"; Contributors