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LANDSCAPES OF DECADENCE
LITERATURE AND PLACE AT THE FIN DE SIECLE

By:

Alex Murray

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Hardback

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1107169666

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2016

Pages:

235

Description:

This book explores the relationship between literary politics and the politics of place in fin-de-siecle travel and place-based literature.

Synopsis:

The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siecle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siecle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.

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