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Decadent Poetics J. Hall

Decadent Poetics By J. Hall

Decadent Poetics by J. Hall

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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.

Decadent Poetics Summary

Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle by J. Hall

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.

About J. Hall

Joseph Bristow, University of California, USA Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UK William Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Jason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UK Ana Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siecle?; Meredith Martin 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain 4. 'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade 9. 'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell Select Bibliography Index

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NPB9781137348289
9781137348289
1137348283
Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle by J. Hall
J. Hall
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-08-23
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