Fictions of British Decadence

High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle

By: Kirsten MacLeod

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Hardcover | 1 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development, and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel. MacLeod fills a large gap in understanding the movement that helped negotiate transition from the Victorian triple-decker to experimental Modernist fiction.

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Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The French origins of British Decadence	p. 1
Decadence in Britain	p. 2
Mythologizing British Decadence	p. 7
The 'tragic generation'	p. 8
Decadence as high art	p. 10
Class myths of Decadence: bohemians and aristocratic dandies	p. 12
Demythologizing British Decadence	p. 13
Reading British Decadence a rebours	p. 16
Fictions of British Decadence	p. 18
The Mystified Class Origins of Decadence	p. 21
Professionals vs capitalists in the mid-Victorian period	p. 23
The emergence of the Decadent sensibility	p. 26
Decadent Positionings: Decadence and the Literary Field	p. 38
The battle for cultural authority in the fin-de-siecle literary field	p. 39
'Other' Decadent role models: George Meredith and Robert Louis Stevenson	p. 47
Paving the way for Decadence: publishers of Decadence	p. 50
The Birth of the Decadent in Fiction, 1884-89	p. 57
Aestheticism, Naturalism, and the emergence of Decadence	p. 58
The Decadent Aesthete, aestheticized Naturalism, and Vernon Lee's Miss Brown	p. 60
George Moore's ur-texts of Decadence: Confessions of a Young Man and Mike Fletcher	p. 66
Writing Against Decadence, 1890-97	p. 78
'Delighting in dirtiness and confessing its delight': the reception of The Picture of Dorian Gray	p. 79
Women writing against Decadence	p. 83
Marie Corelli's Wormwood: a counter-Decadent discourse?	p. 85
The Beth Book and the 'Grand' stand against Decadence	p. 90
Decadent Fiction Before the Keynotes Series	p. 99
Robert Hichens's 'The Collaborators': a model for Decadent literary production	p. 101
A real-life collaboration: Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore's Comedy of Masks	p. 104
Collaboration or interference? John Davidson's North Wall	p. 110
'Keynotes' of Decadence, 1894-95	p. 116
Defining the keynotes of Decadence: Perfecting the counter-Decadent discourse	p. 117
Arthur Machen's Great God Pan and Decadent pan(ic)	p. 119
Transcending genre: high/low collaboration in M. P. Shiel's Prince Zaleski	p. 128
Decadence in the Shadow of the Wilde Trials and Beyond	p. 135
The swan song of Decadence: Arthur Machen's Hill of Dreams	p. 135
Decadence, Decadents and the literary field in the shadow of the Wilde trials	p. 138
Decadence and the Edwardian and Modernist literary fields	p. 144
The Afterlife of the Decadents or, Life After Decadence	p. 149
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900): The 'Dowson legend' as 'fiction of Decadence'	p. 150
John Davidson (1857-1909): a Decadent malgre lui	p. 154
Arthur Machen (1863-1947): the difficult Decadent	p. 159
M. P. Shiel (1865-1947): the mediating Decadent	p. 164
Notes	p. 171
References	p. 201
Index	p. 215
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