The Dedalus Book of Decadence
Title | The Dedalus Book of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] |
Publisher | Dedalus |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2022-02-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781912868681 |
The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent
The Dedalus Book of Decadence
Title | The Dedalus Book of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | Dedalus Limited |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781873982013 |
"The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor." -- Andrew St George in The Independent "An invaluable sampler of spleen, everything from Baudelaire and Rimbaud to Dowson and Flecker. Let's hear it for 'luxe, calme et volupte'." -- Anne Billson in Time Out
The Dedalus Book of Decadence
Title | The Dedalus Book of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1992-08-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780781801096 |
The Dedalus Book of Decadence (moral Ruins)
Title | The Dedalus Book of Decadence (moral Ruins) PDF eBook |
Author | Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
Title | The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Anderson |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2024-05-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1912868709 |
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a ‘black feast’ and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
Glorious Perversity
Title | Glorious Perversity PDF eBook |
Author | Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0809519089 |
A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.
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.