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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."
- Honore De Balzac
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 Format: Paperback, 308 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812216784
Release Date: Jan 12, 1998
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When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, one hundred years after the
famous trial and at the end of another century, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force.
Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.
Liz Constable teaches French at the University of California, Davis.
Dennis Denisoff teaches English at the University of Waterloo. Matthew Potolsky teaches literature at Harvard University.
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This splendid collection of essays, with its lucid, witty, and masterful introduction by the editors, will transform our understanding of the decadent aesthetic. . . . It is required and rewarding reading. —Elaine Showalter
| |  | | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | Interversions | 35 | | 2 | Unknowing Decadence | 50 | | 3 | Decadent Paradoxes | 65 | | 4 | Posing a Threat: Queensberry, Wilde, and the Portrayal of Decadence | 83 | | 5 | Decadent Critique: Constructing "History" in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | 101 | | 6 | Opera and the Discourse of Decadence: From Wagner to AIDS | 119 | | 7 | Spaces of the Demimonde / Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-1990 | 142 | | 8 | "Comment Peut-on Etre Homosexuel?": Multinational (In)Corporation and the Frenchness of Salome | 159 | | 9 | The Politics of Posing: Translating Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Latin America | 183 | | 10 | Improper Names: Pseudonyms and Transvestites in Decadent Prose | 198 | | 11 | Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body | 215 | | 12 | Pale Imitations: Walter Pater's Decadent Historiography | 235 | | 13 | "Golden Mediocrity": Pater's Marcus Aurelius and the Making of Decadence | 254 | | 14 | Fetishizing Writing: The Politics of Fictional Form in the Work of Remy de Gourmont and Josephin Peladan | 268 | | 15 | "Ce Bazar Intellectuel": Maurice Barres, Decadent Masters, and Nationalist Pupils | 289 | | List of Contributors | 309 | | Index | 311 |
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