Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910 - Denisoff, Dennis; - Prospero Internet Bookshop
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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910

Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival
 
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Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and queer desire embodied in 19th- and early 20th-century literature and art.

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Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.

'... a provocative addition to the study of both decadence and ecology.' Elizabeth Helsinger
Table of Contents:
1. Decadent Ecology and the Pagan Revival; 2. 'Up & down & horribly natural': Walter Pater and the Decadent Anthropocene; 3. The Lick of Love: Trans-Species Intimacy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field; 4. The Genius Loci as Spirited Vagabond in Robert Louis Stevenson and Vernon Lee; 5. Occult Ecology and the Decadent Feminism of Moina Mathers and Florence Farr; 6. Sinking Feeling: Intimate Decomposition in William Sharp, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton.