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Decadent poetics : literature and form at the British Fin de Siècle / edited by Jason David Hall, Alex Murray.

Contributor(s): Hall, Jason David, 1975- [editor of compilation.] | Murray, Alex, 1980- [editor of compilation.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culturePublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xvi, 235 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137348289 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Decadence (Literary movement) -- Great Britain | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 820.9'008 Summary: '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.
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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.

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