Landscapes of decadence : literature and place at the fin de siécle / / Alex Murray

• Autore: Murray Alex <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809/.034
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Decadence (Literary movement); Politics and literature - History - 19th century; Politics and literature - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Landscapes of decadence: reading the sermons in stone -- The disappearing ghosts of Naples -- 'Paris and London, world-flowers twain' -- Stirring the cumnor cowslips in decadent Oxford -- The glowing furnace of decadent Wales -- 'Venice, sans hope': reading decadent New York -- Conclusion 'running into fairy-land'.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-siècle 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 siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.
• Titolo autorizzato: Landscapes of decadence
• ISBN: 1-316-76187-8; 1-316-76691-8; 1-316-76619-5; 1-316-72649-5; 1-316-76763-9; 1-316-76835-X; 1-316-77051-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150171603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II