Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691631028)

As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of Romanticism demoralized by philology. Decadent writers like Paler and Wilde and Beardslcy sought to preserve a few precious fragments from what they imagined--and paradoxically welcomed--as England's imminent decline and fall.

Originally published in 1987.

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Author: Linda C. Dowling
ISBN-10: 0691631026
ISBN-13: 9780691631028
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2016
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d