Decadence in the Age of Modernism: (Hopkins Studies in Modernism)

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Kate Hext and Alex Murray 1. Dainty Malice: Ada Leverson and Post-Victorian Decadent Feminism Kristin Mahoney 2. The Ugly Things of Salome Ellen Crowell 3. Decadent Paths and Percolations after 1895 Nick Freeman 4. "A Poetess of No Mean Order": Margaret Sackville, Women's Poetry, and the Legacy of Aestheticism Joseph Bristow 5. The Queer Drift of Firbank Ellis Hanson 6. Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay's Decadence Sarah Parker 7. Woolf and Joyce, Barnes and Beckett: The Legacy of Decadence in Major Modernist Novels Vincent Sherry 8. "The Woodland Whose Depths and Whose Heights Were Pan's": Swinburne and Lawrence, Decadence and Modernism Howard J. Booth 9. The Naughtiness of the Avant-Garde: Donald Evans, Claire Marie, and Tender Buttons Douglas Mao 10. The Queerness of Being 1890 in 1922: Carl Van Vechten and the New Decadence Kirsten MacLeod 11. A Decadent Dream Deferred: Bruce Nugent and the Harlem Renaissance's Queer Modernity Michèle Mendelssohn Contributors Index

About the Author :
Kate Hext is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy. Alex Murray is a senior lecturer in modern literature at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin De Siècle.

Review :
Decadence in the Age of Modernism will be of great import for scholars concerned with Decadent art and literature and would work well as a required text for graduate seminars on Decadent literature and visual and material culture. —Julia Skelly, McGill University, Victorian Studies Decadence in the Age of Modernism provides essential reading for decadence studies, continues a necessary intervention in modernist studies, and suggests important changes to twentieth-century literature surveys. —Robert Stiling, Florida State University, Nineteenth-Century Contexts This book vividly demonstrates the value of bridging the fields of Victorian, Modernist, and Harlem Renaissance studies. —Mimi Winick, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies On the whole, Decadence in the Age of Modernism is a considerable accomplishment that offers much to discover. —The Modernist Review This collection of essays offers a series of fascinating examples that illuminate the nuances of this relationship and, crucially, collectively draw attention to the plurality of both traditions in a period too often dominated by the high modernist canon. —Natasha Ryan, University of Oxford, Decadence and Cinema Decadence in the Age of Modernism is an illuminating and ground-breaking consideration of an under-examined subject, one that ably demonstrates that the fin not only outlived the siècle, it thrived in a new century. —Richard A. Kaye, Modernism/Modernity ...distinguished and exceptional. —Robert Finnigan, Nottingham Trent University, Victoriographies