TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alice Condé
AU  - Jessica Gossling
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787076266
TI  - In Cynara’s Shadow
T2  - Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson
DO  - 10.3726/b11217
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055644
N2  - In the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become something of a Decadent legend, much anthologized and referenced in almost every study of English Decadent literature, but still is considered a minor figure of the fin de siècle. He is, in fact, an important intermediary between late nineteenth-century Decadence and literary Modernism. This first collection of critical essays devoted solely to Dowson draws him out of the shadows and acknowledges his talent and legacy. The essays in this volume by established and emergent Dowson scholars offer new perspectives on some of the most noteworthy aspects of Dowson’s oeuvre, including Catholicism and Paganism, desire and sexuality, space and place, his relationships with Decadent contemporaries including Paul Verlaine and Aubrey Beardsley, and his poetic resonance in twentieth-century literature and music.
KW  - Ernest Dowson, Decadence, nineteenth-century English literature, In Cynara’s Shadow, Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson
LA  - English
ER  -