Romancing Decay

Ideas of Decadence in European Culture

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Michael St John ISBN: 9781351902564
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: December 5, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Michael St John
ISBN: 9781351902564
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: December 5, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
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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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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