Decadence as historical myth and cultural theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12528448 |
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| Authors | Mary Gluck (John Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-361 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13507486.2014.912483 |
| OpenAlex | W1968069452 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article traces the early history of the concept of European decadence with special emphasis on its manifestations in French literary production in the period between 1860 and 1900. It argues that decadence was not a historical reality, but a cultural myth, that gave expression to a new, specifically urban experience of modernity first thematized in Baudelaire's poetry and prose work. It further claims that this concept continues to have important contemporary relevance in the form of debates about the "second modernity" and the new "cosmopolitanism
Aesthetics · Art · Cosmopolitanism · Cultural history · Culture theory · Decadence · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Mythology · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Decadence, Literature, and Society · French Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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