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almafu_9958352396002883
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1 online resource :
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15 illus.
ISBN:
9780812292480
Series Statement:
New Cultural Studies
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When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, more than one hundred years after the famous trial and at the beginning of a new millennium, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force.Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Defining Decadence --
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Chapter 1. Interversions --
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Chapter 2. Unknowing Decadence --
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Chapter 3. Decadent Paradoxes --
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Visualizing Decadence --
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Chapter 4. Posing a Threat: Queensberry Wilde, and the Portrayal of Decadence --
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Chapter 5. Decadent Critique: Constructing "History" in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover --
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Chapter 6. Opera and the Discourse of Decadence: From Wagner to AIDS --
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Chapter 7. Spaces of the Demimonde/Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-I990 --
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Identifications of Decadence and Decadent Identities --
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Chapter 8. "Comment Peut-on Être Homosexuel?": Multinational (In)Corporation and the Frenchness of Salomé --
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Chapter 9. The Politics of Posing: Translating Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Latin America --
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Chapter 10. Improper Names: Pseudonyms and Transvestites in Decadent Prose --
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Chapter 11. Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body --
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Decadence, History, and the Politics of Language --
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Chapter 12. Pale Imitations: Walter Pater's Decadent Historiography --
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Chapter 13. "Golden Mediocrity": Pater's Marcus Aurelius and the Making of Decadence --
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Chapter 14. Fetishizing Writing: The Politics of Fictional Form in the Work of Remy de Gourmont and Joséphin Péladan --
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Chapter 15. Ce ″Bazar Intellectual": Maurice Barrès, Decadent Masters, and Nationalist Pupils --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812292480
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292480
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292480
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