Decadent poetics : literature and form at the British fin de siècle

Publication Data

• Title Decadent poetics : literature and form at the British fin de siècle
• Contributors Jason David Hall, Alex Murray
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Basingstoke, Hampshire
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Decadence (Literary movement) :: Great Britain
• Literary form :: History :: 19th century
• English literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism

Decadent poetics : literature and form at the British fin de siècle. ISBN 9781137348289. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.