The decadent republic of letters : taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley / Matthew Potolsky.

The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than lan...

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Main Author: Potolsky, Matthew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Haney Foundation series.
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