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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442652538
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCarter, A.E.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900 /
_cA.E. Carter.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1978]
264 4 _c©1978
300 _a1 online resource (166 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThe cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's preoccupation with decadence provides us with a key to the secret places of its thought, to all the obscure passages and backstairs behind the triumphant façade. Between 1814 and 1914, there was no sense of disaster, no tragic sense. Civilization had become a habit, a side product of political constitutions and applied science. History was viewed pragmatically: of what use were such traditional symbols as throne and altar? Both are essentially propitiatory, evidence of man's uneasy knowledge that power is dangerous and destiny implacable. And both seemed anachronisms in a world where (it was thought) human reason had solved or would solve all the old problems. The theory of decadence is very largely a protest against this comfortable belief. Had the decadents not written, we should hardly suspect that the nineteenth century suffered from the same doubts and hesitations as all other ages, before and since.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aDecadence in literature.
650 0 _aFrench literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aDISCOUNT-B.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
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