Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914: 1780-1914

ISBN-13: 9780367880057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Kostas Boyiopoulos; Mark Sandy

Opis

For all its strong reactions against Romanticism, Decadence shared with the period a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Decadent Romanticism reflects on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature and explores these movements' obsessions with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fra

Recenzje

'Alert to Romanticism’s prescience in contemplating the excesses of its own decaying other self, the 12 essays gathered in this timely collection embrace the dark splendors and dying glories that connect Romanticism and fin-de-siècle Decadence in British and European literature and culture. Spanning the period from Baillie and Byron, Coleridge and Keats to Swinburne, Symons, and Wilde, the book is packed with new insights into Romanticism’s strange legacies to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Spis treści

Table of contents to come.

O autorze

Kostas Boyiopoulos is Associate Tutor of English Studies and Mark Sandy is Reader in English Studies at Durham University, UK.