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Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2024-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1912868709 |
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The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a ‘black feast’ and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
Author | : Brian Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780781801102 |
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Author | : STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] |
Publisher | : Dedalus |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912868698 |
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The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a 'black feast' and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
Author | : STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] |
Publisher | : Dedalus |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912868681 |
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The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Dedalus Limited |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781873982013 |
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"The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor." -- Andrew St George in The Independent "An invaluable sampler of spleen, everything from Baudelaire and Rimbaud to Dowson and Flecker. Let's hear it for 'luxe, calme et volupte'." -- Anne Billson in Time Out
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A black feast with offerings from the major practitioners and their precursors in France and England.
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780781801096 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Farrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Dedalus Book of Roman Decadence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume collects the poetry and prose that served as the model and inspiration for so much of fin-de-siecle English and French writing, providing a vivid picture of sexual excess and debauchery in a cruel and violent society which has never ceased to fascinate the library and scholarly imagination of succeeding generations. The editor, novelist Geoffrey Farrington, provides a general introduction to the literary and political milieux of imperial Rome, and introductory notes to works by such authors as Ovid, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal. "...concentrates on the outrageous behaviour of the ruling class of the Roman Empire, as described in passages selected from the prose, poetry and history of the period. Their murder plots, sexual deviances, orgies, cruelty and incessant intrigue put our politicians and their peccadillos on a play school level." Time Out
Author | : James Willsher |
Publisher | : Decadence from Dedalus S |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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The 1890s English Decadence was no mere polite response to French invention, but the hothouse blossoming of long indigenous researches into the perverse. Like Imperial Rome, England could hardly subdue and rule the globe without becoming corrupt. The Romantics tried rebellion, but amidst Victorian industry, terminally fatigued Decadents concerned themselves with cultivating their addiction to luxury and sensation. In The Dedalus Book of English Decadence: Vile Emperors and Elegant Degenerates, avatars and acolytes such as Beckford, Byron, De Quincey, Dowson, Bosie and Wilde are all to be found at their unwholesome best.
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0809509083 |
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A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.