Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s

by Matthew Sturgis

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The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets weary of life sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of this beguiling picture is peculiar, for the myth of the Decadent Nineties was created during the period itself. It was an age of artistic self-consciousness, during which writers and painters...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1843680734

ISBN13:9781843680734

Release Date:July 2011

Publisher:Pallas Athene

Length:318 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

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Cultural England Europe History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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