The Jewish decadence : Jews and the aesthetics of modernity /: Jews and the aesthetics of modernity. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Freedman.
• Authors: Freedman, Jonathan, 1954-
• Contents: Preface, by Daniel Hack and Amy Hungerford Introduction: 'Our Two-Step Is the Modern Decadence!' 1 Qu'est-ce que c'est la décadence? And What Does It Have to Do with Jews? 2 Oscar Wilde among the Jews 3 Salomania and the Remaking of the Jewish Female Body from Sarah Bernhardt to Betty Boop 4 Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust 5 Pessimism, Jewish Style: Jews Reading Schopenhauer from Freud to Bellow 6 Walter Benjamin's Paris, Capital of Jewish Aesthetic Modernity 7 Dybbuks, Vampires, and Other Fin-de-Siècle Jewish Phantasms Conclusion: The Deca-danse; or, The Afterlife of the Jewish Decadent Notes Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.911; Decadence (Literary movement); Civilization, Modern -- Jewish influences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226581118
• Related ISBNs: 9780226580920; 9780226581088
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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