Decadence, Degeneration, and the End: Studies in the European Fin de Siècle
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Introduction: The Empire at the End of Decadence; Christopher Nissen and Marja Härmänmaa PART I: THE TWILIGHT WORLD: DECADENT VISIONS OF WORLD, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE 1. Thermal Degeneration: Thermodynamics and the Heat-Death of the Universe in Victorian Science, Philosophy, and Culture; Mason Tattersall 2. A Regenerative Decadence or a Decadent Regeneration: Challenges to Darwinian Determinism by French, Spanish, and Latin American Writers in the Fin-de-Siècle; Natalia Santamaría Laorden 3. Late Antiquity as an Expression of Decadence in the Poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy and Stefan George; Anastasia Antonopoulou 4. Decadence and Regeneration: Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales as a Tool for Social Change; Magali Fleurot PART II: THE SEDUCTION OF SICKNESS 5. Decadent Tropologies of Sickness; Pirjo Lyytikäinen 6. Consuming and Consumed: Woman as Habituée in Eugène Grasset's Morphinomaniac; Abigail Susik 7. Decadence, Melancholia, and the Making of Modernism in the Salome Fairy Tales of Strindberg, Wilde, and Ibsen; Kyle Mox PART III: DECADENCE AND THE FEMININE 8. Mariia Iakunchikova and the Roots of Decadence in Late-Nineteenth Century Russian Modernism; Kristen M. Harkness 9. The Spectral Salome: Salomania and Fin-de-Siècle Sexology and Racial Theory; Johannes Burgers 10. "For the Strong-Minded Alone": Evolution, Female Atavism, and Degeneration in Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé; Gülru Çakmak PART IV: TWO STUDIES OF DEATH 11. Death at Sea: Symbolism and Charles Cottet's Subjective Realism; Maura Coughlin 12. The Seduction of Thanatos: Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Decadent Death; Marja Härmänmaa
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Breite: | 148 |
Gewicht: | 491 g |
Höhe: | 226 |
Länge: | 23 |
Seiten: | 282 |
Sprachen: | Englisch |
Autor: | Christopher Nissen, Jeffrey Walsh, Marja Härmänmaa |
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