Reading Decadence is an intersensorial experience. It is to indulge in voluptuous pleasures and excruciating pains, to sample exotic tastes and sounds, and to envisage states of mind in highly sensual terms. Obsessed with extreme sensory experiences, Decadent writers identified ways of shocking the...

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Corporate Author:	International Conference on Decadence and the Senses London (Author)
Other Authors:	Desmarais, Jane 1965- (Editor), Condé, Alice 1986- (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Legenda 2017
Subjects:	Dekadenzliteratur Konferenzschrift > 2014 > London
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext
Summary:	Reading Decadence is an intersensorial experience. It is to indulge in voluptuous pleasures and excruciating pains, to sample exotic tastes and sounds, and to envisage states of mind in highly sensual terms. Obsessed with extreme sensory experiences, Decadent writers identified ways of shocking the middle classes and rejecting moralism by turning the conventional notion of 'good taste' on its head. This collection of essays explores the Decadent sensorium in the work of established and less well-known Decadent writers and artists, including Rachilde, Theodore Wratislaw, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, J.-K. Huysmans, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Michael Field, Ernest Dowson, and Stéphane Mallarmé. Tracing sensual motifs and figures in the work of late nineteenth-century Decadent writers and artists, leading and emerging scholars in the field offer new and provocative insights into the Decadent imagination
Item Description:	"This volume of essays contains a selection of contributions to an International Conference on Decadence and the Senses held at Goldsmiths, University of London, in April 2014" - Introduction
Physical Description:	xii, 243 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781781884812 9781781884829