Decadence and Catholicism

Ellis Hanson

Harvard University Press, 1998

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The decadents—including Wilde, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Pater, and Verlaine—found in the Catholic Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. Hanson shows how Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism.

ISBN-13
9780674194465
ISBN-10
0674194462
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1998
Publication date
1998-02-01
Pages
448
Dimensions
156x233x28
Weight
656