Landscapes of decadence literature and place at the fin de siècle
"The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope f...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Ausgabe: | first published |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin de siecle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siecle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study." |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-225) and index |
| Beschreibung: | vi, 230 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107169661 978-1-107-16966-1 1107169666 1-107-16966-6 |