Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910
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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910

Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910

Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

About this book

Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Thoughts at Imbolc 2021
  10. 1 Decadent Ecology and the Pagan Revival
  11. 2 “Up & down & horribly natural”: Walter Pater and the Decadent Anthropocene
  12. 3 The Lick of Love: Trans-Species Intimacy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field
  13. 4 The Genius Loci as Spirited Vagabond in Robert Louis Stevenson and Vernon Lee
  14. 5 Occult Ecology and the Decadent Feminism of Moina Mathers and Florence Farr
  15. 6 Sinking Feeling: Intimate Decomposition in William Sharp, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton
  16. Epilogue
  17. Notes
  18. Index