"This splendid collection of essays, with its lucid, witty, and
masterful introduction by the editors, will transform our
understanding of the decadent aesthetic, and demonstrate its
relevance to a wide range of important literature and art in
Europe, England, the United States, and Latin America in the past
150 years. It is required and rewarding reading."--Elaine
Showalter, Princeton University When Oscar Wilde was convicted of
gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the "National Observer"
wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking
world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not
under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for
destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the
death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, more than
one hundred years after the famous trial and at the beginning of a
new millennium, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a
significant cultural force. Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth
century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis
yields a broad set of associations. In "Perennial Decay," Emily
Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre,
Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field
of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult
of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They
approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the
continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for
contemporary literary and cultural studies.
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