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Decadence and the 1890s
Author | : Ian Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Decadence (Literary movement). |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105002607377 |
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Dreamers of Decadence
Author | : Philippe Jullian |
Publsiher | : Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UVA:X000416355 |
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Spectrum of Decadence
Author | : Murray Pittock |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Decadence (Literary movement) |
ISBN | : 0415077575 |
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Passionate Attitudes
Author | : Matthew Sturgis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105009712196 |
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Decadent Culture in the United States
Author | : David Weir |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780791479179 |
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Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence—the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe—was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture.
Spectrum of Decadence Routledge Revivals
Author | : Murray Pittock |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317629535 |
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The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, and Walter Pater, Murray Pittock analyses the nature of the ‘Decadent era’ and the artistic theories of Symbolism and Aestheticism. Significantly, he provides a full assessment of the lasting impact that the thought of the period has had on our own understanding of our cultural past. Spectrum of Decadence explores the confrontations between art and science, sex and mortality, desire and virtue, which, the author argues are as much a part of modern society’s fin-de-siécle as they were of the nineteenth century’s. This reissue bridges the gap between literary texts, historical context, and contemporary critical theory.
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publsiher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015025144885 |
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A black feast with offerings from the major practitioners and their precursors in France and England.
The Age of Decadence
Author | : Simon Heffer |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473507586 |
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‘A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times ‘A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.’ Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V’s coronation and the London’s great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation’s massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century’s gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists’ public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom – a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day – including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw – creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges. ‘A devastating critique of prewar Britain . . . disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.’ Gerard DeGroot, The Times ‘You won’t put it down . . . A really riveting read.’ Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking