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Subject(s)

• Decadence (Literary movement) [Browse]

Editor

• Desmarais, Jane [Browse]
• Weir, David, 1947 April 20- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Frequency

Monthly

Summary note

The meaning of decadence varies with context, depending on what (or who) is understood to have declined, decayed, or degenerated. These negative meanings are familiar from history (the decline and fall of Rome), sociology (the decay of communities), morality (the degeneration of values), and more, including such popular conceptions of decadence as excess and corruption. At the same time, all of this negative decadence has found positive cultural expression, principally in literature, through the work of such celebrated nineteenth-century decadents as Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and many others. This volume takes the study of decadence beyond these canonical literary works to explore the phenomenon in broader historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2022.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 21, 2022).

Contents

• Classical Antiquity: Unlikely Decadent Prototypes in Republican Rome / Shushma Malik
• Italy: Decadent Dichotomies in a Disruptive Age / Lara Raffaelli
• Germany: Decadence from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Weimar Republic / Katharina Herold
• Nordic Cultures: From Wilderness to Metropolitan Decadence / Pirjo Lyytikäinen
• Eastern Europe: The “New People” of Decadence / Sasha Dovzhyk
• Japan: Decadence and Japonisme / Stefano Evangelista
• The Decadent Novel: Generic Inversions / Kristin Mahoney
• The Decadent Short Story: Forms of the Morbid / Kostas Boyiopoulos
• Decadent Theater: New Women and “The Eye of the Beholder” / Sos Eltis
• Essays: Defending and Describing Decadence / Nick Freeman
• Ages of Empire: Pinnacles of Decline / Norman Vance
• Prose Poetry: All the Rest is Literature / Jane Desmarais, David Weir
• Cinema: Adapting Decadence / David Weir
• Smell: Perfume and Olfaction / Catherine Maxwell
• Taste: Savoring Decadence / David Weir, Jane Desmarais
• Touch: Unfeeling Decadence / Jane Desmarais
• Hearing: Bodies Resounding in Decadent Literature / Fraser Riddell
• Vision: Decadence in Symbolist Art of the Fin de Siècle / Vivien Greene
• Book Arts: The Decadent Gesamtkunstwerk / Kirsten MacLeod
• Fashion: Decadent Stylings / Catherine Spooner
• Ecology: The Vital Forces of Decay / Dennis Denisoff
• Architecture: Constructing Decadence / Lori Smithey
• Interior Decoration: Designing Decadence / Jessica Gossling
• Theology: Decadent Aesthetics, Anglo-Catholicism, and Ritual / Matthew Bradley
• Science: Entropy, Degeneration, and Decadent Self-Destruction / Jordan Kistler
• Politics: Ideologies of Decadence / Neville Morley
• Psychoanalysis: From Degeneration to Regeneration / Jean-Michel Rabaté
• Philosophy: Post-Kantian Narratives of Decadence / Andrew Huddleston
• Fin de Siècle, Gilded Age, or Belle Époque: Different Endings to the Same Century / Shearer West
• Turkey: Ottoman Tanzimat and the Decadence of Empire / Özen Nergis Dolcerocca
• Introduction: Decadence, Culture, and Society / David Weir, Jane Desmarais
• Belgium: Decadent Land, Barbarian Language / Clément Dessy
• The Interwar Period: Legacies of Decadence / Melanie Hawthorne
• Contemporary Contexts: Decadence Today and Tomorrow / Alice Condé
• France: The Rise of Modern Decadence / Bénédicte Coste
• Britain and Ireland: Decadence beyond London / Alex Murray.

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Other title(s)

Decadence

ISBN

• 0-19-006697-0
• 0-19-006696-2
• 0-19-006698-9

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