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While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. InThe Decadent Republic of Letters, he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic sensation.The Decadent Republic of Letterslooks at the way Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and Algernon Charles Swinburne used the language of classical republican political theory to define beauty as a form of civic virtue. The libertines, an international underground united by subversive erudition, gave decadents a model of countercultural affiliation and a vocabulary for criticizing national canon formation and the increasing state control of education. Decadent figures such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley, and Oscar Wilde envisioned communities formed through the circulation of art. Decadents lavishly praised their counterparts from other traditions, translated and imitated their works, and imagined the possibility of new associations forged through shared tastes and texts. Defined by artistic values rather than language, geography, or ethnic identity, these groups anticipated forms of attachment that are now familiar in youth countercultures and on social networking sites. Bold and sophisticated,The Decadent Republic of Lettersunearths a pervasive decadent critique of nineteenth-century notions of political community and reveals the collective effort by the major figures of the movement to find alternatives to liberalism and nationalism

Decadence (Literary movement) --- English literature --- French literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History

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'Fictions of Autonomy' presents a revisionary account of aesthetic autonomy and transnational modernism with a range of readings that includes works by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Barnes, and Stevens alongside writings by theorists like Adorno and de Man.

Aestheticism (Literature) --- Autonomy (Philosophy) --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Philosophy --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic of Letters, he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic sensation.The Decadent Republic of Letters looks at the way Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and Algernon Charles Swinburne used the language of classical republican political theory to define beauty as a form of civic virtue. The libertines, an international underground united by subversive erudition, gave decadents a model of countercultural affiliation and a vocabulary for criticizing national canon formation and the increasing state control of education. Decadent figures such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley, and Oscar Wilde envisioned communities formed through the circulation of art. Decadents lavishly praised their counterparts from other traditions, translated and imitated their works, and imagined the possibility of new associations forged through shared tastes and texts. Defined by artistic values rather than language, geography, or ethnic identity, these groups anticipated forms of attachment that are now familiar in youth countercultures and on social networking sites.Bold and sophisticated, The Decadent Republic of Letters unearths a pervasive decadent critique of nineteenth-century notions of political community and reveals the collective effort by the major figures of the movement to find alternatives to liberalism and nationalism.

Decadence (Literary movement) --- English literature --- French literature --- Literature and society --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.

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L'auteur est le témoin des mouvements littéraires qui s'agitent dans les marges du symbolisme : hydropathes, fumistes, et s'attache particulièrement aux héritiers de Verlaine et aux décadents.

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Ce volume réunit des articles publiés par Christian Berg aussi bien dans le domaine de la littérature symboliste et décadente que dans celui des lettres françaises de Belgique. Une première section s’articule autour du sentiment du déclin chez des écrivains tels que Joris-Karl Huysmans, Elémir Bourges ou Max Elskamp. A partir du constat fait par Marcel Schwob que tout en ce monde n’est que « signes et signes de signes », l’auteur s’intéresse ensuite à l’émergence d’une littérature-simulacre privilégiant les jeux du trompe-l’œil. Enfin, les cinq principaux écrivains symbolistes belges sont lus à la lumière du retentissement énorme que connut la pensée de Schopenhauer dans le XIXe siècle finissant.Christian Berg pratique volontiers une lecture lente où l’attention portée au détail du texte est toujours une façon d’ouvrir le regard sur un au-delà de la littérature. Aussi les textes lus s’inscrivent-ils dans une histoire culturelle large où les arts picturaux occupent une place de premier choix.Cet ouvrage est offert à Christian Berg par ses collègues de l’Université d’Anvers, ses étudiants et ses amis à l’occasion de son éméritat.

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