Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 580 g
Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 580 g
Reihe: Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century
ISBN: 978-1-78707-625-9
Verlag: Peter Lang
In the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become something of a Decadent legend, much anthologized and referenced in almost every study of English Decadent literature, but still is considered a minor figure of the fin de siècle. He is, in fact, an important intermediary between late nineteenth-century Decadence and literary Modernism. This first collection of critical essays devoted solely to Dowson draws him out of the shadows and acknowledges his talent and legacy. The essays in this volume by established and emergent Dowson scholars offer new perspectives on some of the most noteworthy aspects of Dowson’s oeuvre, including Catholicism and Paganism, desire and sexuality, space and place, his relationships with Decadent contemporaries including Paul Verlaine and Aubrey Beardsley, and his poetic resonance in twentieth-century literature and music.
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CONTENTS: Kostas Boyiopoulos: Tainted Medievalism: Ernest Dowson and Courtly Love – Alex Wong: 'Non sum qualis': Three Comparative Readings – Jessica Gossling: From the Drawer to the Cloister: Ernest Dowson’s 'Poésie Schublade' – Bénédicte Coste: 'For the life of me I cannot say!': Ernest Dowson’s Dilemmas – Jad Adams: 'Slimy Trails' and 'Holy Places': Dowson’s Strange Life in Context – Robert Pruett: Dowson, French Literature, and the Catholic Image – Joseph Thorne: Ernest and Aubrey: Friendship and Rivalry at the Fin de Siècle – Alice Condé: 'The pale roses expire': Dowson’s Decadent Diminuendo – Jane Desmarais: 'The quintessence of a quintessence': Music and Musicality in Ernest Dowson’s Verse.
