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Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle

By (author) Alex Murray

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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.

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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 1 Dec 2016
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 235
Dimensions | 234 x 158 x 17mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 460g
ISBN | 978-1-1071-6966-1
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BISAC | literary criticism / semiotics & theory

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