In Cynara's Shadow; Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson

ISBN-13: 9781787076259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Alice Conde;Jessica Gossling

Opis

Ernest Dowson has become something of a legend within studies of late nineteenth-century Decadence and is an important figure in the transition to literary Modernism. This first collection of critical essays devoted solely to Dowson draws him out of the shadows and acknowledges his talent and legacy, offering new perspectives on his oeuvre.

Recenzje

«Alice Condé and Jessica Gossling's edited collection of essays on the fin-de-siècle English poet Ernest Dowson, an iconic decadent figure whose significance is more assumed than established, is a valuable addition to contemporary reconsiderations of decadence in all its manifestations - as literary movement, as cultural sensibility, and as social orientation.» (David Weir, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Cooper Union)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Kostas Boyiopoulos: Tainted Medievalism: Ernest Dowson and Courtly Love - Alex Wong: «Non sum qualis»: Three Comparative Readings - Jessica Gossling: From the Drawer to the Cloister: Ernest Dowson's «Poésie Schublade» - Bénédicte Coste: «For the life of me I cannot say!»: Ernest Dowson's Dilemmas - Jad Adams: «Slimy Trails» and «Holy Places»: Dowson's Strange Life in Context - Robert Pruett: Dowson, French Literature, and the Catholic Image - Joseph Thorne: Ernest and Aubrey: Friendship and Rivalry at the Fin de Siècle - Alice Condé: «The pale roses expire»: Dowson's Decadent Diminuendo - Jane Desmarais: «The quintessence of a quintessence»: Music and Musicality in Ernest Dowson's Verse.

O autorze

Alice Condé is an Associate Tutor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where she has been teaching since 2011.

Jessica Gossling is a Fractional Lecturer in the English and Comparative Literature Department at Goldsmiths.

Alice and Jessica work as part of the Decadence Research Unit at Goldsmiths and are members of the British Association of Decadence Studies.