This essay offers an analysis of the semantic ambiguities inherent in the concept of decadence. In particular, it considers those writers of eighteenth-century England who saw their time not as an era of social and technological progress, but as a century of decline and corruption, especially in the fields of taste, art, literature and landscape.
Décadence as a Palindrome: Eighteenth-Century England / GATTI, Andrea. - STAMPA. - (2006), pp. 181-200.
Décadence as a Palindrome: Eighteenth-Century England
GATTI, Andrea
2006
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This essay offers an analysis of the semantic ambiguities inherent in the concept of decadence. In particular, it considers those writers of eighteenth-century England who saw their time not as an era of social and technological progress, but as a century of decline and corruption, especially in the fields of taste, art, literature and landscape.File in questo prodotto:
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