Decadence in the age of Modernism /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hext, Kate (Editor), Murray, Alex, 1980- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Hopkins studies in modernism.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.