Fictions of British Decadence
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Fictions of British Decadence

High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siècle

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Fictions of British Decadence

High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siècle

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Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel.

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Year
2006
ISBN
9780230504004

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Fictions of British Decadence
  3. Contents
  4. Preface and Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Mystified Class Origins of Decadence
  7. 2 Decadent Positionings: Decadence and the Literary Field
  8. 3 The Birth of the Decadent in Fiction, 1884–89
  9. 4 Writing Against Decadence, 1890–97
  10. 5 Decadent Fiction Before the Keynotes Series
  11. 6 ‘Keynotes’ of Decadence, 1894–95
  12. 7 Decadence in the Shadow of the Wilde Trials and Beyond
  13. 8 The Afterlife of the Decadents or, Life After Decadence
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index