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Spectrum of Decadence Routledge Revivals
Author | : Murray Pittock,Pro Vice-Principal and Bradley Professor Murray Pittock |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : Decadence (Literary movement) |
ISBN | : 1138799149 |
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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.
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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Spectrum of Decadence Routledge Revivals
Author | : Murray Pittock |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317629528 |
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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.
Fin de Siecle Scottish Revival
Author | : Michael Shaw |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474433983 |
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Explores cultural defence and revivalism in Scottish literature and artThe first book-length, interdisciplinary study on fin-de-sicle ScotlandUnlocks Scottish writers' and artists' participation in neo-paganism, the occult revival, neo-Catholicism and japonismeInformed by extensive analysis of under-explored archival materials, such as the Papers of Patrick GeddesRichly illustrated with artworks, photographs and ephemera As the Irish Revival took shape and the Home Rule debate dominated UK politics, what was happening in Scotland? This book reveals distinct but comparable concerns with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-sieI cle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Fiona Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen. Situating Scottish literature and art alongside international developments in culture, especially the rise of decadence, symbolism and Celticism, Michael Shaw demonstrates the ways in which dissident fin-de-sieI cle styles and ideas supported and defined the Scottish Revival.
The Oxford Handbook of Decadence
Author | : Jane Desmarais,David Weir |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 745 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780190066956 |
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Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Emanuel Swedenborg Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven
Author | : Marsha Keith Schuchard |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2011-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004214194 |
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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts. It also reveals the clandestine military and Masonic links between the Swedish Hats and Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), providing new evidence for the prince's role as hidden Grand Master of the Order of the Temple. Swedenborg's usage of Kabbalistic meditative and interpretative techniques and his association with Hermetic and Rosicrucian adepts reveal the extensive esoteric networks that underlay the exoteric politics of the supposedly "enlightened" eighteenth century, especially in the troubled "Northern World" of Sweden and Scotland.
Decadence and the 1890s
Author | : Ian Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105040056587 |
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Decadence
Author | : Alex Murray |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1108445012 |
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Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.