Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle - Hardcover

by J. Hall (Editor), A. Murray (Editor)

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.

Author Biography

Joseph Bristow, University of California, USA Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UK William Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Jason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UK Ana Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK