Seeds of decadence in the late nineteenth-century novel : a crisis in values
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Seeds of decadence in the late nineteenth-century novel : a crisis in values
Macmillan, 1984
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Includes index
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Description
A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and attempts to trace perplexities, perversities and combinations of excess.
Table of Contents
- The grammar of decadence - perversity, paradox and perplexity
- Dostoevsky and the gap of insufficiency
- Henry James and the poetics of postponement
- Emile Zola and the hyperbole of consumption
- Thomas Hardy and the chronic crisis syndrome
- Joseph Conrad and the dissolution of an ethical code - the hollow centre
- the decadent style.
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