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

By Jason David Hall

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349467626
• ISBN13: 9781349467624
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"