Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914
Title | Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Kostas Boyiopoulos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317154118 |
For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914, while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted, darker, perverted, other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics, the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers, and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly, John Keats’s works are a particular focus, in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.
Decadent Romanticism
Title | Decadent Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Kostas Boyiopoulos |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Decadence in literature |
ISBN | 9781315576077 |
Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914
Title | Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Kostas Boyiopoulos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317154126 |
For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914, while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted, darker, perverted, other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics, the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers, and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly, John Keats’s works are a particular focus, in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.
Decadent Conservatism
Title | Decadent Conservatism PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Murray |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2023-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192673963 |
British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatives turned to the past to uncover values and models of social organisation that could offer stability in a chaotic world. From well-known figures such as Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, through to the forgotten editors of short-lived periodicals, important female aesthetes such as Michael Field, and politicians such as Arthur Balfour, Decadent Conservatism challenges conventional understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and the past in late-Victorian Britain. Through a series of thematic chapters exploring the alternative communities created by little magazines, the politics of Individualism, investments in monarchy and religion, Folk Decadence, and jingoistic and nationalist responses to the Second Anglo-Boer war, this study offers a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics. It will be of interest to those working on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as social, political, and cultural history of the period 1880-1920.
Victorian Poetry
Title | Victorian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 594 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
Romanticism and the Social Order
Title | Romanticism and the Social Order PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Walter Harris |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9780713736236 |
Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834
Title | Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834 PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Richardson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
Features 13 essays re-examining a selection of romantic-era writers, texts, and genres to explore the relation between romanticism as a literary field and the emergence of the second British empire during the formative period of 1780-1834.