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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Main Author: Murray, Alex, 1980- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
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520 8 |a 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. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Conservatism and the Experience of Decadence -- Decadence and Politics -- Fin-de-Siècle Conservatism -- The Conservative Tradition -- Two Modes of Decadent Experience -- Experience as Sensation -- Conservative Experience -- Personnel and Precis -- 1. Alternative Communities: Decadent-Conservative Little Magazines -- Facing into The Whirlwind -- Introducing The Senate -- Verlaine, 'bright troubadour of France' -- May 1895: The View from The Senate -- Conservative Decadents in the Twentieth Century -- 2. The Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Individualism -- Individualism at the Fin de Siècle -- Balfour the Aesthete -- Wildean Individualism -- Balfour's Aesthetic Individualism -- Useless Aesthetics -- Balfour and Decadence -- 3. Throne-and-Altar Decadence -- Decadence, Sovereignty, and Religion -- Decadent Medievalism -- The Decadent Civil War -- The Restoration of Decadence -- Decadent Loyalty -- The Death of Queen Victoria -- 4. Folk Decadence -- Decadence, Science, Romanticism -- Folklore against Modernity: W. B. Yeats and Fiona Macleod -- Arthur Machen's Weird Folk Decadence -- Quotidian Wonder -- 5. Decadence, Imperialism, and Jingoism -- Decadence and Empire -- Aesthetic Elegy, Decadent Doggerel, and the Imperial Superman -- 'the Yellow Book in court dress and bedroom slippers': The Anglo-Saxon Review -- 'Patriotism and art mix as little as oil and water': Aestheticizing Anglo-Saxonism -- Art for Empire's Sake -- Coda: Symons and The Superwomen -- Bibliography -- Index 
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