LEADER 05047nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910452936503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89860-8 010 $a0-8122-0733-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207330 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707679 035 $a(OCoLC)822017927 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000760161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11418610 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000760161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818975 035 $a(PQKB)11171751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441810 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19127 035 $a(DE-B1597)449632 035 $a(OCoLC)979577064 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207330 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441810 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642145 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421110 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707679 100 $a20120406d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe decadent republic of letters$b[electronic resource] $etaste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley /$fMatthew Potolsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 225 0$aHaney Foundation series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4449-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-224) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. "Workers of the Final Hour" -- $tChapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus" Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire -- $tChapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire -- $tChapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization -- $tChapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education -- $tChapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community -- $tPostscript. Public Works Stéphane Mallarmé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire" -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhile scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic of Letters, he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic sensation.The Decadent Republic of Letters looks at the way Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and Algernon Charles Swinburne used the language of classical republican political theory to define beauty as a form of civic virtue. The libertines, an international underground united by subversive erudition, gave decadents a model of countercultural affiliation and a vocabulary for criticizing national canon formation and the increasing state control of education. Decadent figures such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley, and Oscar Wilde envisioned communities formed through the circulation of art. Decadents lavishly praised their counterparts from other traditions, translated and imitated their works, and imagined the possibility of new associations forged through shared tastes and texts. Defined by artistic values rather than language, geography, or ethnic identity, these groups anticipated forms of attachment that are now familiar in youth countercultures and on social networking sites.Bold and sophisticated, The Decadent Republic of Letters unearths a pervasive decadent critique of nineteenth-century notions of political community and reveals the collective effort by the major figures of the movement to find alternatives to liberalism and nationalism. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aDecadence (Literary movement)$zEngland 606 $aDecadence (Literary movement)$zFrance 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDecadence (Literary movement) 615 0$aDecadence (Literary movement) 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a809/.034 700 $aPotolsky$b Matthew$01042852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452936503321 996 $aThe decadent republic of letters$92467391 997 $aUNINA