The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth-Century France

by Koenraad W. Swart

"It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open- ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con- dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401196753
• ISBN13: 9789401196758
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"