Decadence and Catholicism |
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| Author:
| Hanson, Ellis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-19446-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $46.00 |
Book Description:
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The decadents--including Wilde, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Pater, and Verlaine--found in the Catholic Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. Hanson shows how Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism.
The decadents--including Wilde, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Pater, and Verlaine--found in the Catholic Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. Hanson shows how Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism.