Decadent Catholicism and the making of modernism. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin Lockerd.
• Authors: Lockerd, Martin
• Contents: Cover -- Halftitle -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Anamnesis -- 1 The Decadents: Profligates, Priests, Pornographers, and Pontiffs -- Wilde and His Circle -- Johnson in the Confessional -- Dowson's Search for Peace -- 2 Yeats and Pound: Disavowing Decadence, Forgetting Catholicism -- Pound: Wrong from the Start -- Yeats's Strange Souls -- 3 T. S. Eliot's Decadent (Anglo)-Catholicism -- "A Satirist of Vices and Follies" -- [Decadent]-Catholic in Religion 4 George Moore and James Joyce: Decadent Anti-Catholicism and Irish Modernism -- Decadence and Cosmopolitanism -- Moore's Rebellion -- Non Serviam: Stephen Dedalus as Decadent Anti-Catholic -- 5 Evelyn Waugh: Decadent Catholicism Revisited -- "Firbank Is Baroque" -- Aubrey Beardsley's Decadent Arcadia -- A Wild(e) Conversion -- Waugh's Queer Celibates -- Coda: Alan Hollinghurst and DBC Pierre: Decadent Catholicism after Modernism -- Hollinghurst and the Ghost of Firbank -- DBC Pierre and the Decadence of the 1% -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 820.9/921282; Decadence (Literary movement) -- Great Britain; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Christianity and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Christianity and literature; Decadence (Literary movement); English literature; English literature -- Irish authors; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Modernism (Literature); Great Britain; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Electronic books; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1350137677; 9781350137660; 1350137669; 9781350137677
• Related ISBNs: 9781350137653
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2020).
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