Decadent Romanticism |
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Editor:
| Boyiopoulos, Kostas Sandy, Mark |
Series edited by:
| Newey, Vincent Shattock, Joanne |
Series title: | The Nineteenth Century Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4724-2243-9 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $109.95 |
Book Description:
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For all its strong reactions against Romanticism, Decadence shared with the period a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Decadent Romanticism reflects on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature and explores these movements' obsessions with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.
For all its strong reactions against Romanticism, Decadence shared with the period a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Decadent Romanticism reflects on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature and explores these movements' obsessions with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.