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Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 - 1780-1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 - 1780-1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
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For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful
imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial
negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the
period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with
Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism
and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices
between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism
reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors
to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914, while also remaining alert to
the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own
distorted, darker, perverted, other self. Creative pairings include
William Blake and his Decadent critics, the recurring figure of the
sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers, and
Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not
surprisingly, John Keats's works are a particular focus, in essays
that explore Keats's literary and visual legacies and his resonance
for writers who considered him an icon of art for art's sake.
Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of
Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity, isolation, addiction,
fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a
poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.
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