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Matt Potolsky presents a clear introduction to this potentially daunting concept, examining:

• the foundations of mimetic theory in ancient philosophy, from Plato to Aristotle
• three key versions of mimesis: imitatio or rhetorical imitation, theatre and...

While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In "The Decadent Republic of Letters," he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic sensation.

"The Decadent Republic of Letters" looks at the way Charles Baudelaire, Theophile...