Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914
| Author | : Dr Mark Sandy |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2015-12-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781472422422 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1472422422 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (422 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 by : Dr Mark Sandy
Download or read book Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 written by Dr Mark Sandy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all its strong reactions against Romanticism, Decadence shared with the period a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Decadent Romanticism reflects on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature and explores these movements' obsessions with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.