Name: Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel
ISBN: 978-1-349-10450-5

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Suzanne Nalbantian ⁰

Suzanne Nalbantian
1. Old Westbury, Long Island, USA
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-x

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The Grammar of Decadence: Perversity, Paradox and Perplexity
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 1-17
Dostoevsky and the Gap of Insufficiency
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 18-36
Henry James and the Poetics of Postponement
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 37-54
Emile Zola and the Hyperbole of Consumption
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 55-72
Thomas Hardy and the Chronic Crisis Syndrome
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 73-95
Joseph Conrad and the Dissolution of an Ethical Code: the Hollow Centre
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 96-115
The Decadent Style
- Suzanne Nalbantian
Pages 116-132
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Pages 133-144

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A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and attempts to trace perplexities, perversities and combinations of excess.

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Old Westbury, Long Island, USA

Suzanne Nalbantian

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Book Title: Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel
Book Subtitle: A Crisis in Values
Authors: Suzanne Nalbantian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10450-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1984
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-47400-6Published: 18 June 1988
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10450-5Published: 22 August 1988
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 144
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Fiction

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

The Grammar of Decadence: Perversity, Paradox and Perplexity

Dostoevsky and the Gap of Insufficiency

Henry James and the Poetics of Postponement

Emile Zola and the Hyperbole of Consumption

Thomas Hardy and the Chronic Crisis Syndrome

Joseph Conrad and the Dissolution of an Ethical Code: the Hollow Centre

The Decadent Style

Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

Authors and Affiliations

Old Westbury, Long Island, USA

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