Perennial Decay
Subtitle: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (New Cultural Studies)
Contributors: Liz Constable (Editor); Dennis Denisoff (Editor); Matthew Potolsky (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812216783
Subjects: Aesthetics; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Decadence (Literary movement); 20th century; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; General; Decadence in art; 19th century; Essays; Arts, Modern
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.