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Passionate Attitudes - The English Decadence of the 1890s (Paperback)
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Passionate Attitudes - The English Decadence of the 1890s (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 820
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The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde,
Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of
the Victorian century, when young poets--weary of life--sat about
drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of
this beguiling picture is peculiar, for the myth of the Decadent
Nineties was created during the period itself. It was an age of
artistic self-consciousness, during which writers and painters
believed that they had to create not only their works but also
their personalities. In Passionate Attitudes, Matthew Sturgis
examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious
painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all
conspired to promote the notion of decadence. He explores in detail
the cataclysmic effect upon English decadence of the spectacular
trial and subsequent conviction of Wilde in 1895, a fall which was
to cast a blight over the whole generation. As well as the
luminaries Wilde, Beardsley and Beerbohm, Sturgis portrays Arthur
Symons, the poet of the music halls, who divided his energies
between promoting Verlaine and chasing after chorus girls; Ernest
Dowson, the demoralized romantic of the Rhymers Club; Count Erik
Stenbock, who kept a snake up his sleeve and went mad; and John
Gray, who may have been the model for Wilde's Dorian. John Lane
published most of their books; Owen Seaman and Ada Leverson
parodied their manners. Elegantly written, Passionate Attitudes
provides a hugely informative and richly entertaining account of
the zeitgeist behind the glorious decade of excess.
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