Analysis of the concept of decadence in its semantical ambiguities. The essay considers those authors of the XVIIIth-century England who saw the eighteenth century not as an era of social and technological progress, but as a century of decline and corruption, especially in the fields of taste, arts, literature and landscape.
Décadence as a Palindrome: Eighteenth-Century England
GATTI, Andrea
2006
Abstract
Analysis of the concept of decadence in its semantical ambiguities. The essay considers those authors of the XVIIIth-century England who saw the eighteenth century not as an era of social and technological progress, but as a century of decline and corruption, especially in the fields of taste, arts, literature and landscape.File in questo prodotto:
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