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It offers an overview of literary Decadence, expanding the range of writers, locales, and time periods that make up Decadence.
List of contents
1. Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Androgyny and Collecting Culture Daniel Orrells; 2. British Decadence and Renaissance Italy Hilary Fraser; 3. 'Rather a Delicate Subject': Verlaine, France and British Decadence Matthew Creasy; 4. Fighting Like Cats and Dogs: Decadence and Print Media Nick Freeman; 5. Varieties of Decadent Religion Mark Knight; 6. The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics Sarah Parker; 7. Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity Will Abberley; 8. Decadence and Politics Matthew Potolsky; 9. Seeds of Discord: Decadent Sexuality and Dissipating Species Dennis Denisoff; 10. Decadent Poetics After Swinburne Catherine Maxwell; 11. Theatre and Decadence Sos Eltis; 12. 'Restless Mystical Ardours': Decadence and Music Emma Sutton; 13. Decadence in Painting Richard A. Kaye; 14. Decadent Poetry and Translation: The Suffusive and the Prosodic Clive Scott; 15. Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence María del Pilar Blanco; 16. Decadent America 1890-1930 Kirsten MacLeod; 17. Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom Kirsten Lodge; 18. A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence Vincent Sherry; 19. Camp Modernism and Decadence Kristin Mahoney; 20. Making Decadence New: Carl Van Vechten's Cinematic Fiction Kate Hext; 21. Writing Decadent Lives and Letters Ellen Crowell and Alex Murray; 22. Decadence in the Time of AIDS Allan Kilner-Johnson.
About the author
Alex Murray is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the Queen's University, Belfast. His most recent monograph is Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle (2016) and he edited, with Kate Hext, Decadence in the Age of Modernism (2019), and with Jason David Hall Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle (2013). His essays have recently appeared in Modernism/modernity; Journal of Victorian Culture; Modernist Cultures; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920; MFS Modern Fiction Studies; Textual Practice.
Summary
This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, and faculty who work across Victorian Studies and twentieth-century literature. A comprehensive overview of Decadence, it also expands the methodological, geographical, and temporal coordinates of the movement, with a renewed focus on the role played by women writers.
