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Decadence in the Age of Modernism
Title
Decadence in the Age of Modernism [electronic resource] / edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray.
ISBN
1421429438
9781421429434
142142942X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421429427 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"This edited collection, of literary theory and criticism, proves that the Decadence movement had a longer-lasting influence on literature and aesthetics than has traditionally been accepted. Decadent principles and aesthetics continued to exert a compelling influence on the next generation of writers, from high Modernists (Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence) to late Decadents (Ronald Firbank and the Sitwells) to writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Bruce Nugent and Carl Van Vechten). This collection offers a multifaceted critical revision of how Modernism evolved out of, and coexisted with, the Decadent movement, which Modernism was often keen to discredit and supersede"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Literature
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
Hopkins studies in Modernism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Dainty malice: Ada Leverson and post-Victorian decadent feminism / Kristin Mahoney
The ugly things of Salome / Ellen Crowell
Decadent paths and percolations after 1895 / Nick Freeman
"A poetess of no mean order": Margaret Sackville, women's poetry, and the legacy of aestheticism / Joseph Bristow
The queer drift of Firbank / Ellis Hanson
Burning the candle at both ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay's decadence / Sarah Parker
Woolf and Joyce, Barnes and Beckett: the legacy of decadence in major modernist novels / Vincent Sherry
"The woodland whose depths and whose heights were Pan's": Swinburne and Lawrence, decadence and modernism / Howard J. Booth
The naughtiness of the avant-garde: Donald Evans, Claire Marie, and Tender Buttons / Douglas Mao
The queerness of being 1890 in 1922: Carl Van Vechten and the new decadence / Kirsten MacLeod
A decadent dream deferred: the Harlem Renaissance's queer modernity / Michele Mendelssohn.
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