Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence

by Kristin Mahoney

Book Overview

In Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, Kristin Mahoney argues that the early twentieth century was a period in which the specters of the fin de si cle exercised a remarkable draw on the modern cultural imagination and troubled emergent avant-gardistes. These authors and artists refused to assimilate to the aesthetic and political ethos of the era, representing themselves instead as time travelers from the previous century for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107109744
• ISBN13: 9781107109742
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"