Decadent poetics : literature and form at the British Fin de Siècle /

Decadent poetics : literature and form at the British Fin de Siècle / edited by Jason David Hall, Alex Murray. - xvi, 235 pages ; 23 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture . - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Decadent Poetics' explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackenthorpe.

Specialized.

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Decadence (Literary movement)--Great Britain.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.

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