Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
eBook - PDF

Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

  1. 431 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

About this book

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui - all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence. The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society's moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.

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Information

Publisher
ibidem
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9783838266237
Edition
0
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Containing the Poisonous Text: Decadent Readers, Reading Decadence
  3. Arthur Symons’ Decadent Aesthetics: StĂ©phane MallarmĂ© and the Dancer Revisited
  4. Cultural Decline and Alienation in Vernon Lee’s “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”
  5. A Decadent Discord: George Egerton
  6. Gratifying a Divine Instinct: Sarah Stickney Ellis on Pleasure-Seeking and Feminine Morals
  7. “Lifeless, inane, dawdling”: Decadence, Femininity and Olive Schreiner’s Woman and Labour
  8. The Perversion of Decadence: The Cases of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray and Salome
  9. A Moment’s Fixation: Aesthetic Time and Dialectical Progress
  10. Decadence in Post-Colonial British Dystopias
  11. “Lascivious Dialect”: Decadent Rhetoric and the Early-Modern Pornographer
  12. Dandies, Libertines, and Byronic Lovers: Pornography and Erotic Decadence in Nineteenth- Century England
  13. Sexual Literary Freedom vs. Societal Hypocrisy and Ignorance: Aleister Crowley and the Artistic Challenge
  14. Discourse of Pathology and the Vitalistic Desire for Unity in Lawrence Durrell’s The Black Book
  15. The Obscure Camera: Decadence and Moral Anxiety in Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin
  16. Permissive Paradise: The Fiction of Swinging London
  17. Beowulf: Always Already Decadent
  18. Derek Mahon: “A decadent who lived to tell the story”
  19. Contributors