Title The decadent republic of letters : taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley / Matthew Potolsky

Edition 1st ed Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Haney Foundation series Haney Foundation series. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour" -- Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus" Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire -- Chapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization -- Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education -- Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community -- Postscript. Public Works Stéphane Mallarmé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than language, geography, or national identity Analysis Cultural Studies Literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Decadence (Literary movement) -- England Decadence (Literary movement) -- France English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- France -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Decadence (Literary movement) English literature French literature Literature and society England France Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812207330 0812207335

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