Perennial Decay
Subtitle: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (New Cultural Studies Series)
Contributors: Liz Constable (Editor); Dennis Denisoff (Editor); Matthew Potolsky (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780812234701
Subjects: Aesthetics; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Decadence (Literary movement); Arts In General (Multi-Subject); Esthetics; Literary Criticism; English; Arts, Modern; General; Decadence in art; 19th century
First sentence: Perhaps no text provides more fertile ground for the commonplace that the master trope of decadence is inversion than J. K. Huysmans's A rebours.