Martin Lockerd

Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists. Linking the later writers with their literary predecessors, Martin Lockerd examines the shifts in representation of Catholic decadence in the works of W. B. Yeats through Ezra Pound to T.S. Eliot; the adoption and transformation of anti-Catholicism in Irish writers George Moore and James Joyce; the Catholic literary revival as portrayed in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; and the attraction to decadent Catholicism still felt by postmodernist writers D.B.C. Pierre and Alan Hollinghurst.

Drawing on new archival research, this study revisits some of the central works of modernist literature and undermines existing myths of modernist newness and secularism to supplant them with a record of spiritual turmoil, metaphysical uncertainty, and a project of cultural subversion that paradoxically relied upon the institutional bulwark of European Christianity. Lockerd explores the aesthetic, sexual, and political implications of the relationship between decadent art and Catholicism as it found a new voice in the works of iconoclastic modernist writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350137677
• Artikelnr.: 59525346

Autorenporträt

Martin Lockerd is Assistant Professor of English at Schreiner University, USA, where he live in Texas hill country with his wife and three daughters. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. He has published articles on the relationship between decadent and modernist literature in The Yeats/Eliot Review, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgments Anamnesis Chapter 1-The
Decadents: Profligates, Priests, Pornographers, and Pontiffs Wilde and his
Circle Johnson in the Confessional Dowson's Search for Peace Chapter
2-Yeats and Pound: Disavowing Decadence, Forgetting Catholicism Pound:
Wrong from the Start Yeats's Strange Souls Chapter 3-T. S. Eliot's Decadent
(Anglo)-Catholicism "A Satirist of Vices and Follies" [Decadent]-Catholic
in Religion Chapter 4-George Moore and James Joyce: Decadent
Anti-Catholicism and Irish Modernism Decadence and Cosmopolitanism Moore's
Rebellion Non Serviam: Stephen Dedalus as Decadent Anti-Catholic Chapter
5-Evelyn Waugh: Decadent Catholicism Revisited "Firbank is baroque" Aubrey
Beardsley's Decadent Arcadia A Wild(e) Conversion Waugh's Queer Celibates
Alan Hollinghurst and DBC Pierre: Decadent Catholicism After Modernism
Hollinghurst and the Ghost of Firbank DBC Pierre and the Decadence of the
1% Bibliography Index