Screen LibraryThe decadent republic of letters : taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from baudelaire to beardsley /
The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than lan...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Haney foundation series
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The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than language, geography, or national identity. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812207330 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I06 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour" -- Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus" Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire -- Chapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization -- Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education -- Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community -- Postscript. Public Works St phane Mallarm s "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |