The Hectic Beauty of Decay”
Positivist Decadence in Mathilde Blind's Late Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Diedrick (Agnes Scott College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 631-648 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150306051357 |
| OpenAlex | W2170282099 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Wan mists enwrap the still-born day; The harebell withers on the heath, And all the moorland seems to breathe The hectic beauty of decay. —Mathilde Blind, “The Evening of the Year,” Songs and Sonnets To again invoke the organic metaphor at the root of decadence, what is crucial about the notion of decay is not so much the change from a greater to a lesser state, but the changing itself. —David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism [T]he aim of decadence, whether in science or art, is to challenge the limits that mark some forms of knowledge as permissible and others as forbidden, regardless of the results. —Christine Ferguson, “Decadence as Scientific Fulfillment”
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Decadence · Literature · Poetry · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |