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Fictions of British Decadence
High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siècle
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Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Fictions of British Decadence
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Mystified Class Origins of Decadence
- 2 Decadent Positionings: Decadence and the Literary Field
- 3 The Birth of the Decadent in Fiction, 1884–89
- 4 Writing Against Decadence, 1890–97
- 5 Decadent Fiction Before the Keynotes Series
- 6 ‘Keynotes’ of Decadence, 1894–95
- 7 Decadence in the Shadow of the Wilde Trials and Beyond
- 8 The Afterlife of the Decadents or, Life After Decadence
- Notes
- References
- Index