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Decadent Poetics

Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle

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  1. Jason David Hall

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Alex Murray

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Decadent Poetics

    • Alex Murray, Jason David Hall
    Pages 1-25

  3. How Decadent Poems Die

    • Joseph Bristow
    Pages 26-45

  4. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?

    • Meredith Martin
    Pages 46-64

  5. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    • Marion Thain
    Pages 65-82

  6. The Harem of Words’: Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry

    • Nick Freeman
    Pages 83-99

  7. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde

    • Matthew Potolsky
    Pages 100-115

  8. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field

    • Ana Parejo Vadillo
    Pages 116-140

  9. Salome, Simile, Symboliste

    • Ellis Hanson
    Pages 141-162

  10. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe

    • William Greenslade
    Pages 163-180

  11. ‘A Disembodied Voice’: The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence

    • Dennis Denisoff
    Pages 181-200

  12. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence

    • Catherine Maxwell
    Pages 201-225

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 226-235
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Jason David Hall, Alex Murray

About the editors

Joseph Bristow, University of California, USA Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UK William Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Jason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UK Ana Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK

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