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Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested
term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the
dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in
early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one
which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and fractured by voices
operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates.
These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our
contributors' chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G. K.
Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M. R. James, C.L.R James,
Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman
Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing
voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent
Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century
literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume
questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and
periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume
is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living
and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed
sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism.
Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested
term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the
dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in
early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one
which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and fractured by voices
operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates.
These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our
contributors' chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G. K.
Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M. R. James, C.L.R James,
Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman
Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing
voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent
Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century
literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume
questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and
periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume
is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living
and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed
sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism.
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.
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.
This is the first anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a
variety of fin-de-siecle themes. This wide-ranging anthology
showcases for the first time the short story as the most attractive
medium through which writers experiment with Decadent themes and
styles. Ranging from works by Ernest Dowson, George Egerton and
Charlotte Mew to those of Arthur Symons, Joseph Conrad and Oscar
Wilde, the 36 stories demonstrate ideas of class, gender,
sexuality, and science as well as the Gothic, social satire,
Symbolist fantasy, fairy tale, Naturalism/Realism, Impressionism,
erotica, and the scientific romance. The book stresses the role of
the magazine culture in the unprecedented explosion of the Decadent
short story in the 1890s. A full introductory essay sets the scene,
while detailed annotations and helpful critical material make this
anthology stand out. It brings a variety of rare and important
stories together in one volume reflecting an influential literary
genre. It expands the scope of Decadence by bringing together male
and female voices, obscure and famous authors, and stylistic and
thematic concerns such as New Woman fiction, the Gothic,
Impressionism, Realism, paganism, class, homosexuality, and
science. It includes a detailed introduction, an introduction to
each story, endnotes, three appendices containing parodies,
background sources, and further reading with a timeline, and a
select bibliography.
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Arthur Machen - Critical Essays (Paperback)
Antonio Sanna; Contributions by Amanda M. Caleb, Francesco Corigliano, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, …
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R1,290
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Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a
cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of
weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into
different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary
production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the
religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve
chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of
human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the
surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or
the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret
Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic
theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology
and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the
scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works.
The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the
occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of
his works.
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Arthur Machen - Critical Essays (Hardcover)
Antonio Sanna; Contributions by Amanda M. Caleb, Francesco Corigliano, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, …
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R3,496
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Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a
cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of
weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into
different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary
production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the
religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve
chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of
human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the
surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or
the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret
Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic
theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology
and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the
scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works.
The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the
occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of
his works.
The first anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a variety
of fin-de-siecle themes This wide-ranging anthology showcases for
the first time the short story as the most attractive genre for
British writers who experimented with Decadent themes and styles.
From familiar writers such as Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons and
Oscar Wilde to less known writers such as Charles Ricketts, Vincent
O'Sullivan and Una Ashworth Taylor the 36 stories and 2 parodies
demonstrate ideas of class, gender, sexuality, and science as well
as the Gothic, social satire, Symbolist fantasy, fairy tale,
Naturalism/Realism, Impressionism, erotica, and the scientific
romance. The selections represent the important role that the
Little Magazine culture played in the unprecedented explosion of
the Decadent short story in the 1890s. A full introductory essay
sets the scene, while an introduction and endnotes for each story
and explanatory material at the end of the book make this anthology
stand out. Key Features and Benefits - Brings a variety of rare and
important stories together in one volume reflecting an influential
literary genre - Expands the scope of Decadence by bringing
together male and female voices, obscure and famous authors, and
stylistic and thematic concerns such as New Woman fiction, the
Gothic, Impressionism, Realism, paganism, class, homosexuality, and
science - Includes a detailed introduction, an introduction and
endnotes for each story, 3 appendices containing parodies,
background sources and a chronologically arranged list of facts and
publications related to Aesthetic and Decadent stories, and a
select bibliography Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the
Department of English Studies, Durham University. Yoonjoung Choi is
tutor of English at Durham University. She also teaches Translation
at Durham University and Korean at the University of Leeds. Matthew
Brinton Tildesley is Assistant Professor of English Literature at
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea.
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