Decadence and Literature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Critical Concepts
ISBN-10
1108426247
ISBN-13
9781108426244
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 22nd, 2019
Print length
430 Pages
Weight
750 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.70 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary reference works
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Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence has developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms.
Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor''s indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine''s rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy''s simultaneous delight and distaste with modern urban life, decadence has emerged as a way of taking cultural stock of major social changes. These changes include the role of women in forms of artistic expression and social participation formerly reserved for men, as well as the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ relationships, a development with a direct relationship to decadence. Today, decadence seems more important than ever to an informed understanding of contemporary anxieties and uncertainties.
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