Decadence and Catholicism

by Ellis Hanson

Book Overview

Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands--eroticism and aestheticism--that rendered the decadent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674194462
• ISBN13: 9780674194465
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"