Introduction
Late-Victorian Decadence as Mode, Theory and Attitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21534078 |
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| Authors | Katharina Herold-Zanker (Durham University Durham United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Heidi Łucja Liedke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Durham United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 143 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421-425 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-5222 • E-ISSN: 1865-8938 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ang-2025-0032 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In the last couple of decades Decadence studies, perched between the demarcation lines of Victorianism and Modernist studies, have evolved as an independent field of research. This special issue directs its attention to late-Victorian Decadence as mode, theory and attitude in literary texts. The introduction surveys the latest applications of the term to denominate literary research spanning from ecological to feminist issues. The special issue gathers five articles showcasing how varied authors such as Vernon Lee, Lionel Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Marie Corelli saw an opportunity to query Decadence in its conflicting aesthetics, as well as embrace Decadence as a controversial attitude towards cultural and social norms
| Highly cited | No |
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