Decadence and Catholicism /
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| Author / Creator: | Hanson, Ellis, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | x, 403 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2909201 |
| Summary: | Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 403 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-394) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674194446 (alk. paper) 0674194462 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
