Decadence in the Age of Modernism

The first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s.

Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all too often ends: in 1895. It argues that the decadent principles and aesthetics of Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and others continued to exert a compelling legacy on the next generation of writers, from high modernists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142942X
• ISBN13: 9781421429427
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.9"