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Tables of Contents for Romancing Decay
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
 
Acknowledgements
viii
 
Introduction
ix
 
Redeeming the Decadent City: Changing Responses to the Urban and Wilderness Environments in the Lives of St Jerome
1
16
David Salter
Nature, Venus, and Royal Decadence: Political Theory and Political Practice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
17
10
Michael St John
Reading Symptoms of Decadence in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
27
12
Carla Dente
`Bawdy in Thoughts, precise in Words': Decadence, Divinity and Dissent in the Restoration
39
25
Michael Davies
Dickensian Decadents
64
19
Vincent Newey
Defining Decadence in Nineteenth-century French and British Criticism
83
12
Julian North
Somewhere there's Music: John Meade Falkner's The Lost Stradivarius
95
12
Nicholas Daly
`Squalid Arguments': Decadence, Reform, and the Colonial Vision in Kipling's The Five Nations
107
11
Andrew St John
The Metamorphoses of a Fairy-Tale: Quillard, D'Annunzio and The Girl With Cut-Off Hands
118
10
Julie Dashwood
A Passion for Dismemberment: Gabriele d'Annunzio's Portrayals of Women
128
13
Susan Bassnett
The Escape from Decadence: British Travel Literature on the Balkans 1900-45
141
13
Andrew Hammond
Books and Ruins: Abject Decadence in Gide and Mann
154
17
Martin Halliwell
Resisting Decadence: Literary Criticism as a Corrective to Low Culture and High Science in the Work of I.A.Richards
171
12
Daniel Cordle
Blow It Up and Start All Over Again: Second World War Apocalypse Fiction and the Decadence of Modernity
183
16
Tristram Hooley
Decadence and Transition in the Fiction of Antonio Tabucchi: a Reading of Il filo dell'orizzonte
199
10
Marina Spunta
Beyond Decadence: Huysmans, Wilde, Baudrillard and Postmodern Culture
209
14
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Translation: Decadence or Survival of the Original?
223
12
Amir Ali Nojoumian
The Decadent University: Narratives of Decay and the Future of Higher Education
235
11
Mark Rawlinson
The Lateness of the World, or How to Leave the Twentieth Century
246
11
Martin L.Davies
Bibliography
257
16
Index
273