{"product_id":"decadence-in-the-age-of-modernism-9781421429427","title":"Decadence in the Age of Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s.   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 celebrated but more often blushingly denied, even as they exerted a compelling influence on the early twentieth century. Offering a multifaceted critical revision of how modernism evolved out of, and coexisted with, the decadent movement, the essays in this collection reveal how decadent principles infused twentieth-century prose, poetry, drama, and newspapers. In particular, this book demonstrates the potent impact of decadence on t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecadence in the Age of Modernism will be of great import for scholars concerned with Decadent art and literature and would work well as a required text for graduate seminars on Decadent literature and visual and material culture.\u003cbr\u003e—Julia Skelly, McGill University, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecadence in the Age of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e provides essential reading for decadence studies, continues a necessary intervention in modernist studies, and suggests important changes to twentieth-century literature surveys.\u003cbr\u003e—Robert Stiling, Florida State University, \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Contexts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book vividly demonstrates the value of bridging the fields of Victorian, Modernist, and Harlem Renaissance studies.\u003cbr\u003e—Mimi Winick, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the whole, \u003ci\u003eDecadence in the Age of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e is a considerable accomplishment that offers much to discover.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays offers a series of fascinating examples that illuminate the nuances of this relationship and, crucially, collectively draw attention to the plurality of both traditions in a period too often dominated by the high modernist canon.\u003cbr\u003e—Natasha Ryan, University of Oxford, \u003ci\u003eDecadence and Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecadence in the Age of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e is an illuminating and ground-breaking consideration of an under-examined subject, one that ably demonstrates that the fin not only outlived the siècle, it thrived in a new century.\u003cbr\u003e—Richard A. Kaye, \u003ci\u003eModernism\/Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...distinguished and exceptional.\u003cbr\u003e—Robert Finnigan, Nottingham Trent University, \u003ci\u003eVictoriographies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eKate Hext and Alex Murray\u003cbr\u003e1. Dainty Malice: Ada Leverson and Post-Victorian Decadent Feminism\u003cbr\u003eKristin Mahoney\u003cbr\u003e2. The Ugly Things of Salome\u003cbr\u003eEllen Crowell\u003cbr\u003e3. Decadent Paths and Percolations after 1895\u003cbr\u003eNick Freeman\u003cbr\u003e4. \"A Poetess of No Mean Order\": Margaret Sackville, Women's Poetry, and the Legacy of Aestheticism\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Bristow\u003cbr\u003e5. The Queer Drift of Firbank\u003cbr\u003eEllis Hanson\u003cbr\u003e6. Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay's Decadence\u003cbr\u003eSarah Parker\u003cbr\u003e7. Woolf and Joyce, Barnes and Beckett: The Legacy of Decadence in Major Modernist Novels\u003cbr\u003eVincent Sherry \u003cbr\u003e8. \"The Woodland Whose Depths and Whose Heights Were Pan's\": Swinburne and Lawrence, Decadence and Modernism\u003cbr\u003eHoward J. Booth\u003cbr\u003e9. The Naughtiness of the Avant-Garde: Donald Evans, Claire Marie, and Tender Buttons\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Mao\u003cbr\u003e10. The Queerness of Being 1890 in 1922: Carl Van Vechten and the New Decadence\u003cbr\u003eKirsten MacLeod\u003cbr\u003e11. A Decadent Dream Deferred: Bruce Nugent and the Harlem Renaissance's Queer Modernity\u003cbr\u003eMichèle Mendelssohn\u003cbr\u003eContributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084922974551,"sku":"9781421429427","price":47.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421429427.jpg?v=1762207574","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decadence-in-the-age-of-modernism-9781421429427","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}