The English Literary Decadence: An Anthology

by Christopher S. Nassaar

Overview

The English Literary Decadence provides a comprehensive anthology of the English Decadent poetry and prose from the early 1890's, while also redefining Decadence and broadening its boundaries. Christopher S. Nassaar includes Pater's Renaissance, the work that sparked the Decadent movement, in its entirety. This is the first time that Pater's seminal work has been published with the literature it inspired. He provides a generous sampling of the period with selections from John Barlas, Max Beerbohm, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, 'scar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and others. This compilation also includes Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a work responding to, and ultimately indicting, the ideas of the Decadent Movement. Nassaar places this important movement in the context of Victorian Literature, while providing an excellent resource for comparing the literature of this movement with that of others, as well as with the work of those influenced by Decadence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761814269
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/17/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Christopher S. Nassaar is Professor of English Literature at the American University of Beirut.

Table of Contents

chapter 1 Introduction chapter 2 Part One: Walter Pater 1893—1894 chapter 3 Part Two: John Barlas ("Evelyn Douglas") chapter 4 Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898 chapter 5 Max Beerbohm 1872-1956 chapter 6 Lord Alfred Douglas 1870-1945 chapter 7 Ernest Dowson 1867-1900 chapter 8 "Michael Field" chapter 9 John Gray (1866-1934) chapter 10 Lionel Johnson (1876-1902) chapter 11 Arthur Symons (1865-1945) chapter 12 'scar Wilde (1854-1900) chapter 13 Theodore Wratislaw (1871-1933) chapter 14 Part Three: Joseph Conrad chapter 15 Appendix: Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) chapter 16 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) chapter 17 'scar Wilde (1854-1900) chapter 18 Bram Stoker (1847-1912) chapter 19 Index chapter 20 About the Editor