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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 - Dennis Denisoff

Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910

Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

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Buch | Softcover
278 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-99427-9 (ISBN)
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Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.
Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.

Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Tulsa. His awards and recognitions include the President's Award from both the Nineteenth Century Studies Association and the North American Victorian Studies Association. A past Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar at Ryerson University, in 2022 he is a Visiting Distinguished Researcher at Queen Mary, University of London.

1. Decadent Ecology and the Pagan Revival; 2. 'Up & down & horribly natural': Walter Pater and the Decadent Anthropocene; 3. The Lick of Love: Trans-Species Intimacy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field; 4. The Genius Loci as Spirited Vagabond in Robert Louis Stevenson and Vernon Lee; 5. Occult Ecology and the Decadent Feminism of Moina Mathers and Florence Farr; 6. Sinking Feeling: Intimate Decomposition in William Sharp, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.7.2024
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-108-99427-X / 110899427X
ISBN-13 978-1-108-99427-9 / 9781108994279
Zustand Neuware
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