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

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

Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen.

For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decad