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Seeds of decadence in the late nineteenth-century novel : a crisis in values

Title
Seeds of decadence in the late nineteenth-century novel : a crisis in values / Suzanne Nalbantian.
Author
Nalbantian, Suzanne, 1950-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983.

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Description
x, 144 pages; 23 cm
Summary
A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and attempts to trace perplexities, perversities and combinations of excess.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Fiction
  • Dekadenz
  • Roman
  • Geschichte (1875-1900)
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The grammar of decadence: perversity, paradox, and perplexity -- Dostoevsky and the gap of insufficiency -- Henry James and the poetics of postponement -- Emile Zola and the hyperbole of consumption -- Thomas Hardy and the chronic crisis syndrome -- Joseph Conrad and the dissolution of ethical code: the hollow centre -- The decadent style.
ISBN
  • 0312709250
  • 9780312709259
LCCN
83003387
OCLC
  • ocm09370907
  • 9370907
  • SCSB-91345
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library