226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and... Read more
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Biography
Kostas Boyiopoulos is Associate Tutor of English Studies and Mark Sandy is Reader in English Studies at Durham University, UK.
'Alert to Romanticism’s prescience in contemplating the excesses of its own decaying other self, the 12 essays gathered in this timely collection embrace the dark splendors and dying glories that connect Romanticism and fin-de-siècle Decadence in British and European literature and culture. Spanning the period from Baillie and Byron, Coleridge and Keats to Swinburne, Symons, and Wilde, the book is packed with new insights into Romanticism’s strange legacies to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews, Scotland
