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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Potolsky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. Klappentext The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than language, geography, or national identity. Zusammenfassung The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than language! geography! or national identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour" Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus": Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation: Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire Chapter 3. Golden Books: Pater, Huysmans, and Decadent Canonization Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers: Decadent Pedagogy and Public Education Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters: Some Versions of Decadent Community Postscript. Public Works: Stéphane Mallarmé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire" Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
