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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Table of Contents:
- 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