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Decadent culture in the United States :

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1435632966

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9781435632967

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0791472779

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0791472787

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9780791472774

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9780791472781

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b768221

Title Proper

Decadent culture in the United States :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

art and literature against the American grain, 1890-1926 /

First Statement of Responsibility

David Weir.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxii, 233 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps.

Series Title

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction : the problem of American decadence -- New York : decadent connections -- Boston : decadent communities -- Chicago : the business of decadence -- San Francisco : the seacoast of decadence -- The decadent revival.

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"Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siecle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence - the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe - was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture."--Jacket.

Title

Decadent culture in the United States.

International Standard Book Number

0791472779

American literature-- History and criticism.

Art, American.

Decadence (Literary movement)-- United States-- History.

Decadence in art-- History.

Degeneration-- Social aspects-- United States-- History.

American literature.

ART-- Popular Culture.

Art, American.

Decadence (Literary movement)

Decadence in art.

Dekadenz

History & Archaeology.

Intellectual life.

Kultur

Kunst

Regions & Countries - Americas.

United States - General.

Boston (Mass.), Intellectual life.

Chicago (Ill.), Intellectual life.

San Francisco (Calif.), Intellectual life.

United States, Intellectual life, 1865-1918.

United States, Intellectual life, 20th century.

California, San Francisco.

Illinois, Chicago.

Massachusetts, Boston.

United States.

USA.

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Book number

Weir, David,1947 April 20-

Date of Transaction

20201206134234.0

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