Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s

by Jonathan Stone

Book Overview

Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach, Jonathan Stone examines a shift in perspective that explodes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030344541
• ISBN13: 9783030344542
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"