Decadent Poetics Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle

Title:

ISBN:

9781137348296

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Publication Information New:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Physical Description:

XVI, 235 p. online resource.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,

Abstract:

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.

Subject Term:

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

European literature.

Poetry.

Literature, Modern -- 19th century.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Fiction Literature.