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Poetry --- French literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- 840.015.58 --- Franse literatuur: literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- 840.015.58 Franse literatuur: literaire stromingen: symbolisme

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82.015.58 --- 840 "18" --- Literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 840 "18" Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 82.015.58 Literaire stromingen: symbolisme

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Poetry --- Comparative literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- 82.015.61 --- 82.015.58 --- Symbolism in literature --- Signs and symbols in literature --- Symbolism in folk literature --- Literaire stromingen: naturalisme; realisme --- Literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- Symbolism in literature. --- 82.015.58 Literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- 82.015.61 Literaire stromingen: naturalisme; realisme --- Symbolisme --- Littérature allemande

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Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands-eroticism and aestheticism-that rendered the decadent interest in Catholicism extraordinary. More than any other literary movement, the decadents explored the powerful historical relationship between homoeroticism and Roman Catholicism. Why, throughout history, have so many homosexuals been attracted to Catholic institutions that vociferously condemn homosexuality? This perplexing question is pursued in this elegant and innovative book. Late-nineteenth-century aesthetes found in the Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. The brilliant cast of characters that parades through this book includes Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, J-K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Paul Verlaine. Art for these writers was a mystical and erotic experience. In decadent Catholicism we can glimpse the beginnings of a postmodern valorization of perversity and performativity. Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism.

Ecclesiology --- anno 1800-1899 --- 82:2 --- 82.015.58 --- Literatuur en godsdienst --- Literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- Catholics in literature. --- Catholics --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Literature, Modern --- Religion and literature. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- 82.015.58 Literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- 82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst --- Decadence (Literary movement). --- Catholics in literature --- Religion and literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Literary movements --- Catholic learning and scholarship --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- Moral and religious aspects

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Belgian poetry (French) --- Poésie belge (française) --- 840 <493> "18" --- 840.015.58 --- -Belgian poetry (French) --- -Symbolism (Literary movement) --- -Literary movements --- Franse literatuur: België--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Franse literatuur: literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- Belgian authors --- -Franse literatuur: België--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 840.015.58 Franse literatuur: literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- 840 <493> "18" Franse literatuur: België--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- -840.015.58 Franse literatuur: literaire stromingen: symbolisme --- -French poetry --- French poetry --- Symbolism (Literary movement) --- Literary movements --- Belgian literature (French) --- French literature (outside France) --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Belgium --- Belgian poetry (French) - 20th century --- Belgian poetry (French) - 19th century --- Symbolism (Literary movement) - Belgium --- Poésie --- Mockel, Albert --- Verhaeren, Emile --- Rodenbach, Georges --- Maeterlinck, Maurice --- Van Lerberghe, Charles --- Gilkin, Iwan --- Elskamp, Max --- Hannon, Théodore --- Franse letterkunde --- België