Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.
Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.
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Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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G 2018/2649
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English
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132 pages ; 18 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Rome: classical decadence -- Paris: cultural decadence -- London: social decadence -- Vienna and Berlin: socio-cultural decadence -- Afterword: legacies of decadence.
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Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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England
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[2018]
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The historical trajectory of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome, to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siecle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The first of these, the decline of Rome, provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated,...
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Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.
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Very short introductions
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/2649
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74VKVo6V0jdM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVo6V0jdM
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0190610220 paperback alkaline paper
9780190610227 paperback alkaline paper
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303.48
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991024165687402626
