Decadence in the Age of Modernism

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1 Dainty Malice: Ada Leverson and Post-Victorian Decadent Feminism......Page 38
2 The Ugly Things of Salome......Page 58
3 Decadent Paths and Percolations after 1895......Page 82
4 “A Poetess of No Mean Order”: Margaret Sackville, Women’s Poetry, and the Legacy of Aestheticism......Page 100
5 The Queer Drift of Firbank......Page 129
6 Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Decadence......Page 146
7 Woolf and Joyce, Barnes and Beckett: The Legacy of Decadence in Major Modernist Novels......Page 172
8 “The Woodland Whose Depths and Whose Heights Were Pan’s”: Swinburne and Lawrence, Decadence and Modernism......Page 190
9 The Naughtiness of the Avant-Garde: Donald Evans, Claire Marie, and Tender Buttons......Page 208
10 The Queerness of Being 1890 in 1922: Carl Van Vechten and the New Decadence......Page 240
11 A Decadent Dream Deferred: Bruce Nugent and the Harlem Renaissance’s Queer Modernity......Page 262
Contributors......Page 288
B......Page 292
C......Page 293
F......Page 294
J......Page 295
M......Page 296
O......Page 297
S......Page 298
T......Page 299
Y......Page 300