A reconsideration of Chinese decadent (tuifei) poetry which argues that this poetry is not a marginal trend but rather a vital part of the Chinese literary trad
Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the deat
This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-siècle Italian culture. Some contributions reflect on the poetics of decadence, whil
Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigation of broa
Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, hol