Decadent conservatism : aesthetics, politics, and the past /
British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of the art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscure...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of the art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. This book offers an in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 288 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191949050 0191949051 0192673963 9780192673961 |