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Decadent Poetics

Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle

  • Jason David Hall
  • Alex Murray
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture book series (PNWC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Decadent Poetics
    Alex Murray, Jason David Hall
    Pages 1-25
  3. How Decadent Poems Die
    Joseph Bristow
    Pages 26-45
  4. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?
    Meredith Martin
    Pages 46-64
  5. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Marion Thain
    Pages 65-82
  6. The Harem of Words’: Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry
    Nick Freeman
    Pages 83-99
  7. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde
    Matthew Potolsky
    Pages 100-115
  8. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field
    Ana Parejo Vadillo
    Pages 116-140
  9. Salome, Simile, Symboliste
    Ellis Hanson
    Pages 141-162
  10. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe
    William Greenslade
    Pages 163-180
  11. ‘A Disembodied Voice’: The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence
    Dennis Denisoff
    Pages 181-200
  12. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence
    Catherine Maxwell
    Pages 201-225
  13. Back Matter
    Pages 226-235
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About this book

Introduction

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.

Keywords

drama English literature fashion metre naturalism Oscar Wilde poem poetics poetry Renaissance

Editors and affiliations

  • Jason David Hall
    • 1
  • Alex Murray
    • 1
  1. 1.University of ExeterUK

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