Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle

Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle image
ISBN-10:

1107169666

ISBN-13:

9781107169661

Author(s): Murray, Alex
Released: Dec 01, 2016
Format: Hardcover, 235 pages
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Description:

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-siècle 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 siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.












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