Decadence in the Age of Modernism

Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all too often ends: in 1895. It argues that the decadent principles and aesthetics of Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and others continued to exert a compelling legacy on the next generation of writers, from high modernists and late decadents to writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Writers associated with this decadent counterculture were consciously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142942X
• ISBN13: 9781421429427
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.9"