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

Kirsten MacLeod

(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowlegements Introduction: British Decadence a rebours The Mystified Class Origins of Decadence Decadent Positionings: Decadence and the Literary Field The Birth of the Decadent in Fiction, 1884-89 Writing Against Decadence, 1890-97 Decadent Fiction Before the Keynote Series 'Keynotes' of Decadence, 1894-95 Decadence in the Shadow of the Wilde Trials and Beyond The Afterlife of the Decadents or, Life After Decadence Notes References Index

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