Decadent Conservatism - Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past

Decadent Conservatism argues that both literary Decadence and political conservatism in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century was driven by a common drive to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Thematic chapters offer a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics.

List of contents

• Introduction: Conservatism and the Experience of Decadence


• 1: Alternative Communities: Decadent-Conservative Little Magazines


• 2: The Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Individualism


• 3: Throne-and-Altar Decadence


• 4: Folk Decadence


• 5: Decadence, Imperialism, and Jingoism


• Coda: Symons and the Superwomen

About the author

Alex Murray is Reader in Modern Literature at Queen's University Belfast. He has published widely on Decadent and modernist literatures, including Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin De Siècle (2016) and the edited collection Decadence: A Literary History (2020).

Summary

Decadent Conservatism argues that both literary Decadence and political conservatism in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century was driven by a common drive to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Thematic chapters offer a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics.

Additional text

Decadent Conservatism makes an important contribution to contemporary attempts to rethink Decadence by expanding its canon, tracing its ramifications into the twentieth century and pushing its boundaries beyond London and metropolitan circles.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Murray, Dr Alex (Queen''s University Belfast) Murray
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2023
• EAN: 9780192858207
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285820-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1700 To C 1800