Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s /

• Main Author: Stone, Jonathan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; European literature.; Aesthetics.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; European Literature.

Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Visible and Invisible Modernity
• 2. Decadent Style with a Symbolist Worldview: Palimpsest, Mise en abyme, and the Perils of Profound Superficiality
• 3. Decadent Metaphysics
• 4. The Danger of Seeing Too Much: Fin-de-siècle Ethics and Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's Salome
• 5. Meaningfulness and Superficiality: Joseph Conrad's Surface Truths
• 6. When Metaphor Throttles Metonymy: The Perils of Misreading in Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte
• 7. Conclusion: Fin-de-siècle Endings and Beginnings.