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Decadence and Catholicism
Decadence and Catholicism
Author: Ellis Hanson
Ellis Hanson traces the intersections of the aesthetic, erotic, and religious in the decadent literature of the late nineteenth century. The decadents--including Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Paul Verlaine--found in the Catholic Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expressi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674194441
ISBN-10: 0674194446
Publication Date: 2/1/1998
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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