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This volume explores the idea of decadence through readings of major modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.

"In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of

Contributors: Howard J. Booth, Joseph Bristow, Ellen Crowell, Nick Freeman, Ellis Hanson, Kate Hext, Kirsten MacLeod, Kristin Mahoney, Douglas Mao, Michèle Men

This dissertation intervenes at the meeting point of two current but largely separate critical discourses on (1) the role of fin-de-siècle Decadence in the dev

Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer j