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The Decadent World-View: Selected Essays

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Collection of essays, containing:

  • Introduction [The Decadent World-View]
  • The Alchemical Marriage of Quasimodo and Esmeralda
  • Miasmas and Perfumes
  • Beyond Paradise
  • The Queen of Denial
  • Dandyism and the Splendor and Misery of Cortesans
  • The Osmazone of Literature
  • The Devil's Departure
  • Twin Souls in Torment
  • Beyond Naturalism
  • The Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
  • Masked Lives
  • The Next Best Thing
  • The Progess of Literary Satanism
  • Decadence and the Novel of the Future
  • Edgar Poe and the Gothic Lifestyle
  • Fashions and Faithfulness: The Decadence of Ernest Dowson
  • Should France's Angels Have Revolted After All?

Published by The Borgo Press, August 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4344-1166-2

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