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Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel A Crisis in Values

Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel A Crisis in Values

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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.

Keywords

Literary CriticismModern19th CenturySemiotics & TheoryFictionLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

1988Book

Author(s)Suzanne Nalbantian

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780333474006

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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