A Baedeker of Decadence
Subtitle: Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780300047141
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; c 1800 to c 1900; History and criticism; European - General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Decadence (Literary movement); General; 19th century; 20th century; European literature
First sentence: Daniel, interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dream about the great image, his "head of gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, [h]is legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay," bravely prophesied to the monarch the decline and destruction of empires, his own and those to come.