Decadent ecology in British literature and art, 1860-1910: decay, desire, and the pagan revival

Introduction: Thoughts on Imbolc 2021 -- 1. Decadent ecology and the pagan revival -- 2. "up & down & horribly natural": Walter Pater and the decadent anthropocene -- 3. The lick of love: Trans-species intimacy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field -- 4. The Genius Loci as spirited v...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denisoff, Dennis 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2022
Edition:First paperback edition
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 133
Subjects:
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Introduction: Thoughts on Imbolc 2021 -- 1. Decadent ecology and the pagan revival -- 2. "up & down & horribly natural": Walter Pater and the decadent anthropocene -- 3. The lick of love: Trans-species intimacy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field -- 4. The Genius Loci as spirited vagabond in Robert Louis Stevenson and Vernon Lee -- 5. Occult ecology and the decadent feminism of Moina Mathers and Fiona Farr -- 6. Sinking feeling: Intimate decomposition in William Sharp, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton -- Epilogue.
"Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neopaganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities"--
Item Description:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references and index
Literaturangaben
Physical Description:ix, 260 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781108994279
9781108845977
110899427X

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Indexes