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Copyright 1995 by David Weir All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
LC 95-12795 ISBN 0-87023-991-0 (cloth); 992-9 (pbk.)
Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Walbaum Book by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weir, David, 1947 Apr. 20 Decadence and the making of modernism / David Weir. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-991-0 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-87023-992-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Decadence (Literary movement) 2. Modernism (Literature) 1. Title. PN56.D45W45 1996 809' .91-dc20 95-12795 CIP
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Page v
"a sort of dire happiness ..." Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
In memory of David Geoffrey Weir (19731991)
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Abbreviations
xxi
1 The Definition of Decadence
1
2 Decadence and Romanticism: Flaubert's Salammb
22
3 Decadence and Naturalism: The Goncourts' Germinie Lacerteux
43
4 Decadence and Aestheticism: Pater's Marius the Epicurean
59
5 Decadence and Dcadisme: A Rebours and Afterward
82
6 Decadence and Modernism: Joyce and Gide
119
7 The Decline of Decadence
151
Postface
192
Notes
205
Index
227
Illustrations follow page 104
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Decadence and degeneration have little in common: one refines corruption and the other corrupts refinement The decadent, at least, maintains a standard of decline, while the degenerate lets those standards slip. In this book, I have tried to measure up to the level of decadence achieved by my models and mentors, friends and colleagues. But in decadence as in other matters, nothing fails like success: those who are truly decadent do not do. Simply by writing the book I have participated in a process of degeneration and failed to maintain the dark ideal of decadence. But the fault is mine alone (call it negative culpability), and those who should be exonerated of responsibility for the final, flawed form this book assumed include Brian Swarm, Karen Duys, Alessandra Maffei, and other colleagues at The Cooper Union; Karin Drew and the apprentice decadents at The New School for Social Research; Professors Anna Balakian and Daniel Javitch of New York University; Professor Theoharis C. Theoharis of Harvard University; Professor Michael Seidel of Columbia University; and Clark Dougan and the staff of the University of Massachusetts Press. I thank them all for enlightenment and encouragement, but most of all I thank my wife, Camillefor living up to her nineteenth-century name.
A small portion of this book appeared in earlier form in the James Joyce Quarterly:
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