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100 1 $aWeir, David,$d1947 April 20-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95040978
245 10 $aDecadent culture in the United States :$bart and literature against the American grain, 1890-1926 /$cDavid Weir.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axxii, 233 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-222) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tIntroduction: The Problem of American Decadence -- $gCh. 2.$tNew York: Decadent Connections -- $gCh. 3.$tBoston: Decadent Communities -- $gCh. 4.$tChicago: The Business of Decadence -- $gCh. 5.$tSan Francisco: The Seacoast of Decadence -- $gCh. 6.$tThe Decadent Revival.
520 1 $a"Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siecle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence - the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe - was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y1865-1918.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
651 0 $aBoston (Mass.)$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aChicago (Ill.)$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aDegeneration$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aDecadence in art$xHistory.
650 0 $aArt, American$xHistory.
650 0 $aDecadence (Literary movement)$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
830 0 $aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00030210
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002072.html
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