Decadent Poetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Decadent Poetics

   • Alex Murray, Jason David Hall

   Pages 1-25

3. How Decadent Poems Die

   • Joseph Bristow

   Pages 26-45

4. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?

   • Meredith Martin

   Pages 46-64

5. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

   • Marion Thain

   Pages 65-82

6. The Harem of Words’: Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry

   • Nick Freeman

   Pages 83-99

7. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde

   • Matthew Potolsky

   Pages 100-115

8. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field

   • Ana Parejo Vadillo

   Pages 116-140

9. Salome, Simile, Symboliste

   • Ellis Hanson

   Pages 141-162

10. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe

    • William Greenslade

    Pages 163-180

11. ‘A Disembodied Voice’: The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence

    • Dennis Denisoff

    Pages 181-200

12. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence

    • Catherine Maxwell

    Pages 201-225

13. Back Matter

    Pages 226-235

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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.

• drama
• English literature
• fashion
• metre
• naturalism
• Oscar Wilde
• poem
• poetics
• poetry
• Renaissance
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Exeter, UK

  Jason David Hall, Alex Murray

Joseph Bristow, University of California, USA Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UK William Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Jason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UK Ana Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK

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