 | The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley Subjects: 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 -- 19t; The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than language, geography, or national identity. Matthew Potolsky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. |
