Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Máendes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--

Info autore

Jonathan Freedman is the Marvin Felheim Collegiate Professor of English, American Studies, and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture; The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Anti-Semitism, and the Making of Literary Anglo-America; and Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity.

Riassunto

Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity. While used as smear against the Jewish people, decadence was also an avant-garde movement that many Jewish figures influenced and took influence from

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Freedman, Freedman Jonathan
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.03.2021
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia
• EAN: 9780226581088
• ISBN: 978-0-226-58108-8
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Categorie: Paris, Folklore, Women, Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, art, Gender, Literature, History, Culture, Freud, Europe, Aesthetics, Walter Benjamin, ART / History / General, Identity, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Nonfiction, Schopenhauer, Avant Garde, Salome, Proust, Sexuality, Modernity, Jewish Studies, Deviance, History of Art, Judaism, Modernism, Bellow, decadence, Literature: history & criticism, Jewish, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Vampires, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Monstrosity, Nonconformity, dybbuks, betty book, salomania