Decadence : an annotated anthology /

• Other Authors: Desmarais, Jane (επιμελήτρια), Baldick, Chris (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Subjects: Παρακμή (Λογοτεχνικό ρεύμα); Παρακμή στη λογοτεχνία; Εκφυλισμός > Λογοτεχνικές συλλογές.

The selection of texts and extracts includes key Decadent manifestos and declarations of principle by Théophile Gautier, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde; poems by Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Symons and many others; extracts from prose fictions by J.-K. Huysmans, Aubrey Beardsley and others; critical den...

Table of Contents:

• Prefaces, manifestos and declarations
• The matter of Rome
• Decadent verse
• Decadent fiction
• Diagnoses and denunciations
• Parodies and pastiches.