Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle

Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle - Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

2013

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781137348289
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2013
DEWEY: 820.9008
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 235
Weight: 432g
Height: 216mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 19mm