The Decadent Republic of Letters : : Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley / / Matthew Potolsky.
While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic of...
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Potolsky, Matthew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Decadent Republic of Letters : Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley / Matthew Potolsky. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012] ©2013 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Haney Foundation Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour" -- Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus" Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire -- Chapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization -- Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education -- Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community -- Postscript. Public Works Stéphane Mallarmé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic of Letters, he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic sensation.The Decadent Republic of Letters looks at the way Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and Algernon Charles Swinburne used the language of classical republican political theory to define beauty as a form of civic virtue. The libertines, an international underground united by subversive erudition, gave decadents a model of countercultural affiliation and a vocabulary for criticizing national canon formation and the increasing state control of education. Decadent figures such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley, and Oscar Wilde envisioned communities formed through the circulation of art. Decadents lavishly praised their counterparts from other traditions, translated and imitated their works, and imagined the possibility of new associations forged through shared tastes and texts. Defined by artistic values rather than language, geography, or ethnic identity, these groups anticipated forms of attachment that are now familiar in youth countercultures and on social networking sites.Bold and sophisticated, The Decadent Republic of Letters unearths a pervasive decadent critique of nineteenth-century notions of political community and reveals the collective effort by the major figures of the movement to find alternatives to liberalism and nationalism. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Decadence (Literary movement) England. Decadence (Literary movement) France. English literature 19th century History and criticism. French literature 19th century History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM European French. Literature and society England History 19th century. Literature and society France History 19th century. Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812244496 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207330 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812207330 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812207330/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour" -- Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus" Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire -- Chapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization -- Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education -- Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community -- Postscript. Public Works Stéphane Mallarmé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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