Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

ISBN-13: 9781108845977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Dennis (University of Tulsa) Denisoff

Opis

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and queer desire embodied in 19th- and early 20th-century literature and art.

Recenzje

'Dennis Denisoff's Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910: Decay, Desire and the Pagan Revival is an incredibly important book, its style smooth as silk and brilliantly illuminating. But there are ethical strata in Decadent Ecology that lay the groundwork for future scholarship on decadence that makes this jewel of a book a singular achievement … he offers us a decadent ethics of compassionate, intertwined coexistence that is sorely needed in these painful times.' Julia Skelly, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

1. Decadent Ecology and the Pagan Revival; 2. 'Up & down & horribly natural': Walter Pater and the Decadent Anthropocene; 3. The Lick of Love: Trans-Species Intimacy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field; 4. The Genius Loci as Spirited Vagabond in Robert Louis Stevenson and Vernon Lee; 5. Occult Ecology and the Decadent Feminism of Moina Mathers and Florence Farr; 6. Sinking Feeling: Intimate Decomposition in William Sharp, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton.