This dissertation explores the phenomenon of Renaissance mania in Decadent and Aestheticist literature of the 1880s and 1890s. It locates a variety of works by the Italian poeta vate Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Anglo-Italian intellectual Vernon Lee within what it terms the “Decadent Renaissance,” a version of Renaissance Revivalism that privileges fantastical transformation and anachronistic revelry over positivist approaches to historiography. Concerned with the possibility of embodied, often dangerously erotic, encounters with the past, this fin-de-siècle literary and artistic current merges its interest in aesthetic freedom and sexual perversions with its backward-looking gaze.“The Decadent Renaissance” identifies in the works of these t...
This dissertation examines Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Rena...
textWhen literary movements do not grow out of specific groups who adopt a name fort heir endeavors,...
This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d'Annunzio's Il p...
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of Renaissance mania in Decadent and Aestheticist literatu...
This thesis examines responses to the Italian Renaissance by aesthetes in the late nineteenth and ea...
The aim of the paper is to explore the representation of Renaissance Italy, in Vernon Lee’s Amour Du...
The aim of the paper is to explore the representation of Renaissance Italy, in Vernon Lee’s Amour Du...
This dissertation argues for a reading of English Aesthetic and Decadent literature within the conte...
Vernon Lee scholars have often studied her writings on the Italian Renaissance in connection with Wa...
This dissertation engages with a neglected group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in the Unite...
This dissertation engages with a neglected group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in the Unite...
This dissertation engages with a neglected group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in the Unite...
This dissertation is about the desire for the foreign and the desire for the past. In particular, th...
This dissertation is about the desire for the foreign and the desire for the past. In particular, th...
National self-fashioning in Risorgimento Italy was conditioned by the widespread denigration of the ...
This dissertation examines Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Rena...
textWhen literary movements do not grow out of specific groups who adopt a name fort heir endeavors,...
This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d'Annunzio's Il p...
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of Renaissance mania in Decadent and Aestheticist literatu...
This thesis examines responses to the Italian Renaissance by aesthetes in the late nineteenth and ea...
The aim of the paper is to explore the representation of Renaissance Italy, in Vernon Lee’s Amour Du...
The aim of the paper is to explore the representation of Renaissance Italy, in Vernon Lee’s Amour Du...
This dissertation argues for a reading of English Aesthetic and Decadent literature within the conte...
Vernon Lee scholars have often studied her writings on the Italian Renaissance in connection with Wa...
This dissertation engages with a neglected group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in the Unite...
This dissertation engages with a neglected group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in the Unite...
This dissertation engages with a neglected group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in the Unite...
This dissertation is about the desire for the foreign and the desire for the past. In particular, th...
This dissertation is about the desire for the foreign and the desire for the past. In particular, th...
National self-fashioning in Risorgimento Italy was conditioned by the widespread denigration of the ...
This dissertation examines Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Rena...
textWhen literary movements do not grow out of specific groups who adopt a name fort heir endeavors,...
This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d'Annunzio's Il p...