Item Number: 132271 Title: Decadence, Degeneration, and the End: Studies in the European Fin de Siècle Author: Harmanmaa, Marja ; Christopher Nissen (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781137470881 Description: London-New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 282pp. illus. Contents: 1. Thermal Degeneration: Thermodynamics and the Heat-Death of the Universe in Victorian Science, Philosophy, and Culture; Mason Tattersall. 2. A Regenerative Decadence or a Decadent Regeneration: Challenges to Darwinian Determinism by French, Spanish, and Latin American Writers in the Fin-de-Siècle; Natalia Santamaría Laorden. 3. Late Antiquity as an Expression of Decadence in the Poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy and Stefan George; Anastasia Antonopoulou. 4. Decadence and Regeneration: Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales as a Tool for Social Change; Magali Fleurot. 5. Decadent Tropologies of Sickness; Pirjo Lyytikäinen. 6. Consuming and Consumed: Woman as Habituée in Eugène Grasset's Morphinomaniac; Abigail Susik. 7. Decadence, Melancholia, and the Making of Modernism in the Salome Fairy Tales of Strindberg, Wilde, and Ibsen; Kyle Mox. 8. Mariia Iakunchikova and the Roots of Decadence in Late-Nineteenth Century Russian Modernism; Kristen M. Harkness. 9. The Spectral Salome: Salomania and Fin-de-Siècle Sexology and Racial Theory; Johannes Burgers. 10. "For the Strong-Minded Alone": Evolution, Female Atavism, and Degeneration in Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé; Gülru Çakmak. 11. Death at Sea: Symbolism and Charles Cottet's Subjective Realism; Maura Coughlin. 12. The Seduction of Thanatos: Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Decadent Death; Marja Härmänmaa. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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