The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence

The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
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Publisher : SCB Distributors
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781912868704
ISBN-13 : 1912868709
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Book Synopsis The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence by : Graham Anderson

Download or read book The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence written by Graham Anderson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a ‘black feast’ and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.


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