Decadent Poetics
Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle
Published on 23. August 2013
Book
Hardback
XVI, 235 pages
978-1-137-34828-9 (ISBN)
Description
Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.
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Series
Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XVI, 235 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-34828-9 (9781137348289)
DOI
10.1057/9781137348296
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Persons
Joseph Bristow, University of California, USA
Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada
Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UK
William Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Jason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK
Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA
Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA
Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK
Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA
Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UK
Ana Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK
Content
Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?; Meredith Martin 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain 4. 'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade 9. 'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell Select Bibliography Index