Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle

by Linda Dowling

As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of Romanticism demoralized by philology. Decadent writers like Paler and Wilde and Beardslcy sought to preserve a few precious fragments from what they imagined--and paradoxically welcomed--as England's imminent decline and fall.

Originally published in 1987.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601283
• ISBN13: 9780691601281
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"