Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle
- ISBN-10
- 0691066906
- ISBN-13
- 9780691066905
- Category
- Decadence (Literary movement)
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
- Author
- Linda C. Dowling
Description
As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of Romanticism demoralized by philology. Decadent writers like Paler and Wilde and Beardslcy sought to preserve a few precious fragments from what they imagined--and paradoxically welcomed--as England's imminent decline and fall. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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