Overview

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.

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Author:   J. Hall ,  A. Murray
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.212kg
ISBN:  

9781349467624

ISBN 10:   1349467626
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Siècle?; 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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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

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