Decadence and Catholicism
Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands--eroticism and aestheticism--that rendered the decadent interest in Catholicism extraordinary. More than any other literary movement, the decadents explored the powerful historical relationship between homoeroticism and Roman Catholicism. Why, through…
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- ISBN: 978-0-674-19446-5
- EAN: 9780674194465
- Produktnummer: 1680920
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.0 cm 535 g
- Abbildungen: 10 halftones
- Gewicht: 535
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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