Matthew Potolsky

Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de si�cle in Britain and France and is the author of Mimesis (2006), The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013), and The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (2019), and is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and...See more

Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de si�cle in Britain and France and is the author of Mimesis (2006), The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013), and The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (2019), and is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1998). See less