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A Baedeker of Decadence - Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927 (Hardcover, New)
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A Baedeker of Decadence - Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927 (Hardcover, New)
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During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common
mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many
novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists
who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a
trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents
thirty-two international works of literary decadence written
between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on
the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging
commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural
phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in
narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing
synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of
each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the
close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to
Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs,
and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.
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