The decadent republic of letters : taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley /

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Author / Creator:	Potolsky, Matthew.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
Description:	232 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Haney Foundation series Haney Foundation series.
Subject:	Decadence (Literary movement) -- England. Decadence (Literary movement) -- France. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century. Literature and society -- France -- History -- 19th century. Decadence (Literary movement) English literature. French literature. Literature and society. England. France. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8943675

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ISBN:	9780812244496 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812244494 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-224) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. "Workers of the Final Hour"
Chapter 1. "Partisans Inconnus": Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire
Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation: Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire
Chapter 3. Golden Books: Pater, Huysmans, and Decadent Canonization
Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers: Decadent Pedagogy and Public Education
Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters: Some Versions of Decadent Community
Postscript. Public Works: Stéphane Mallarmeé's "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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