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Landscapes of Decadence
Alex Murray
其他書名
Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle
出版Cambridge University Press, 2016-12
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Modern / 19th CenturyLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics
ISBN11071696669781107169661
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W_CSDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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-siècle 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 siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.