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Decadence and Literature - Desmarais, Jane (Editor), and Weir, David (Editor)
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Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor's indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine's rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy's simultaneous ...

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Decadence and Literature 2019, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108426244

Hardcover