Landscapes of Decadence : Literature and Place at the Fin de Siecle
by
Alex Murray
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107169666
ISBN-13
9781107169661
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2016
Print length
235 Pages
Weight
46 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.50 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theory
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Appealing to graduates, tutors and scholars of Modernism, twentieth-century and Victorian literature, Murray examines the relationship between literature and the politics of place at the fin de siècle. This book explores travel and place-based writing produced by Decadent writers, offering new ways of reading the stylistic innovations of Decadence.
The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing''s approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.
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