The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates

The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates

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Avatars and acolytes Byron, De Quincey, Wilde and more, are here, all at their unwholesome best. English Decadence was not a polite response to French invention, but the hothouse blossoming of long indigenous researches into the perverse. Like Imperial Rome, England could hardly subdue and rule the globe without becoming corrupt. The Romantics tried rebellion, but amidst Victorian industry, terminally fatigued Decadents concerned themselves with cultivating their addiction to luxury and sensation. This is the most wide-ranging, important collection of English decadent writing ever published.

The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates (Decadence from Dedalus S.),James Willsher,Dedalus, Ltd,1903517265,Classics,Fiction,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Fiction anthologies & collections,General & Literary Fiction

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4. The Essential Phantom of The Opera
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8. The History of King Lear (Oxford World's Classics)
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