Decadence

eng [Engels]

editors: Walter Laqueur, George L. Mosse

17 (1981), nr. 1 (January), pp. 1-218

Walter, George L.

Contents: Introduction: decadence on a private income / Eugen Weber -- The "young Viennse" and their fathers: decadence and the generation conflict around 1890 / Wolf Wucherpfennig -- Degeneration, Neurasthenia and the culture of sport in belle époque France / Robert A. Nye -- Decadence, decadentism and decadent romanticism in Italy: toward a theory of Décadence / Richard Drake -- Through the glass darkly: images of decadence in early twentieth-century Russian art / John E. Bowlt -- Women writers in Russian decadence / Temira Pachmuss -- Counting the degenerates: the statistics of race deterioration in Edwardian England / Richard Soloway -- Noise and degeneration: Theodor Lessing's crusade for quiet / Lawrence Baron -- The young Sorelians and decadence / Paul Mazgaj -- Literary decadence: artistic representations of decay / Wolfdietrich Rasch