In Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, Kristin
Mahoney argues that the early twentieth century was a period in
which the specters of the fin de siecle exercised a remarkable draw
on the modern cultural imagination and troubled emergent
avant-gardistes. These authors and artists refused to assimilate to
the aesthetic and political ethos of the era, representing
themselves instead as time travellers from the previous century for
whom twentieth-century modernity was both baffling and
disappointing. However, they did not turn entirely from the modern
moment, but rather relied on decadent strategies to participate in
conversations concerning the most highly vexed issues of the period
including war, the rise of the Labour Party, the question of
women's sexual freedom, and changing conceptions of sexual and
gender identities.
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