Decadent Poetics Literature and Form at the British Fin de Sicle [Paperback]

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Si?cle?; Meredith Martin 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain 4. 'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade 9. 'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell Select Bibliography IndexJoseph Bristow, University of California, USADennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, CanadaNick Freeman, Loughborough University, UKWilliam Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKJason David Hall, University of Exeter, UKEllis Hanson, Cornell University, USAMeredith Martin, Princeton University, USACatherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UKAlex Murray, University of Exeter, UKMatthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USAMarion Thain, University of Sheffield, UKAna Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK