Decadence: A Very Short Introduction

by David Weir and David Weir

Book Overview

The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si cle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated, parodied, and otherwise manipulated for aesthetic gain. What begins as the moral condemnation of modernity in mid-nineteenth century France...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190610220
• ISBN13: 9780190610227
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.6"