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Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.

Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.

Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.

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Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.

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Full title

Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Call Numbers

G 2018/2649

Record Identifier

74VKVo6V0jdM

MMS ID

991024165687402626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

132 pages ; 18 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Introduction -- Rome: classical decadence -- Paris: cultural decadence -- London: social decadence -- Vienna and Berlin: socio-cultural decadence -- Afterword: legacies of decadence.

Publication information

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[2018]

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Scope and Contents

Summary

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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Full title

Decadence : a very short introduction / David Weir.

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Notes

General note

Very short introductions

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2018

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2018/2649

Record Identifier

74VKVo6V0jdM

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVo6V0jdM

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ISBN

0190610220 paperback alkaline paper

9780190610227 paperback alkaline paper

DDC

303.48

MMS ID

991024165687402626

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