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During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectualsââla dĂ©cadence.â Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon.
Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each authorâs style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Baedekers
- Preface
- 1. France: Joris-Karl Huysmans
- 2. Ireland: George Moore
- 3. Italy: Gabriele DâAnnunzio
- 4. Sweden: August Strindberg
- 5. England: Oscar Wilde
- 6. Holland: Louis Couperus
- 7. Norway: Arne Garborg
- 8. Belgium: Georges Rodenbach
- 9. Poland/Prussia: Stanislaw Przybyszewski
- 10. Finland: Karl August Tavaststjerna
- 11. Ireland: Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Martin Ross
- 12. Austria: Leopold von Andrian, Rainer Maria Rilke
- 13. Poland/Prussia: Stanislaw Przybyszewski
- 14. Wales: Arthur Machen
- 15. England: Bram Stoker
- 16. Portugal: José Maria Eça de Queirós
- 17. Spain: RamĂłn MarĂa del Valle-InclĂĄn
- 18. Germany: Thomas Mann
- 19. Sweden: Oscar Levertin, Gustaf af Geijerstam, Hjalmar Söderberg, Kjell Strömberg
- 20. Denmark: Herman Bang
- 21. Australia: Henry Handel Richardson
- 22. The United States: James Gibbons Huneker
- 23. Iceland: HalldĂłr Kiljan Laxness
- Bibliography
- Index