Decadence by Alex Murray HARDBACK 9781108426299

Decadence\nby Alex Murray\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alex Murray\nTitle: Decadence\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781108426299\nISBN-10: 1108426298\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDecadence, 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, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term ''decadence'' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of .