05047nam 2200769 a 450 991045293650332120200520144314.01-283-89860-80-8122-0733-510.9783/9780812207330(CKB)2550000000707679(OCoLC)822017927(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642145(SSID)ssj0000760161(PQKBManifestationID)11418610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000760161(PQKBWorkID)10818975(PQKB)11171751(MiAaPQ)EBC3441810(MdBmJHUP)muse19127(DE-B1597)449632(OCoLC)979577064(DE-B1597)9780812207330(Au-PeEL)EBL3441810(CaPaEBR)ebr10642145(CaONFJC)MIL421110(EXLCZ)99255000000070767920120406d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe decadent republic of letters[electronic resource] taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley /Matthew Potolsky1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20131 online resource (241 p.) Haney Foundation SeriesHaney Foundation seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4449-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-224) and index. 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 -- AcknowledgmentsWhile 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.Haney Foundation series.Decadence (Literary movement)EnglandDecadence (Literary movement)FranceEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismFrench literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyFranceHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Decadence (Literary movement)Decadence (Literary movement)English literatureHistory and criticism.French literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistory809/.034Potolsky Matthew1042852MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452936503321The decadent republic of letters2467391UNINA