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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
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- Binding
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- Weight
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9781890951078
- Book Title
- Decadent Reader : Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- European / French, General
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Item Weight
- 26.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 1096 Pages
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In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a striking manner with those of the last fin de siècle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted disease, gender confusion, moral depravity, alcoholism, and tobacco and drug use were topics of constant popular discussion in both epochs. The Decadent Reader is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-siècle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in perversity. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy, and the deviant, these writers attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived as the chief enemy of art. Barbey d'Aurevilly, J.K. Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Guy de Maupassant, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Catulle Mendès, Rachilde, Jean Moréas, Octave Mirbeau, Joséphin Peladan, and Remy de Gourmont looted the riches of their culture for their own purposes. From an age of medicine they borrowed its occult mysteries rather than its positivism. In its social Darwinism, they found their monsters: sadists, murderers, transvestites, fetishists, prostitutes, nymphomaniacs, and hysterics. And they reveled in them, completely upending the conventions of romance and sentimentality. The Decadent Reader , which includes novels and stories that have never before appeared in English, as well as reappraisals of work that the reader may already be familiar with, offers a compelling portrait of fin-de-siècle France.
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Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN-10
1890951072
ISBN-13
9781890951078
eBay Product ID (ePID)
185804
Product Key Features
Book Title
Decadent Reader : Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / French, General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
1096 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq1276.D34d43 1998
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-053065
Dewey Decimal
840.9/11
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