Decadence
Subtitle: An Annotated Anthology
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780719075506
Subjects: Degeneration; Decadence (literary movement); Decadence in literature
Description: The selection of texts and extracts includes key Decadent manifestos and declarations of principle by Théophile Gautier, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde; poems by Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Symons and many others; extracts from prose fictions by J.-K. Huysmans, Aubrey Beardsley and others; critical denunciations, with more discerning responses to the challenge of Decadence; parodies by Max Beerbohm among others of Decadent attitudes and styles; and significant extracts from relevant ancient Roman writings by Petronius and Juvenal.