The Decadent Republic of Letters : : Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley /

The Decadent Republic of Letters : : Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley / / Matthew Potolsky.

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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,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Haney Foundation Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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