Landscapes of decadence: literature and place at the Fin de Siècle

The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exp...

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Beteilige Person: Murray, Alex 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016
Ausgabe:First published
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Zusammenfassung:The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin de siecle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siecle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study
Umfang:vi, 230 Seiten
ISBN:9781107169661