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| Notes on the Contributors |
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| Introduction |
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1 Symons and Whistler: The Art of Seeing |
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15 | (17) |
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2 Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination |
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32 | (19) |
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3 Decadent Sensuality in Rachilde and Wilde |
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51 | (15) |
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4 `Things worldly and things spiritual': Huysmans's A rebours and the House at Fontenay |
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66 | (17) |
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5 `All the senses would melt into one': Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the Decadent Pleasures of the Roman-a-clef |
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83 | (18) |
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6 `Use my body like the pages of a book': Decadence and the Eroticized Text |
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101 | (20) |
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7 Bittersweet: Michael Field's Sapphic Palate |
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121 | (20) |
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8 Dancing the Image: Sensoriality and Kinesthetics in the Poetry of Stephane Mallarme and Arthur Symons |
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141 | (21) |
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9 Decadent Sensations: Art, the Body and Sensuality in the `Little Magazines' (1885--1897) |
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162 | (20) |
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Matthew Brinton Tildesley |
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10 `Selecting, transforming, recombining': John Singer Sargent's Madame X and the Aesthetics of Sculptural Corporeality |
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182 | (18) |
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11 Sensory Nullification in the Poetry of Ernest Dowson |
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200 | (19) |
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12 Afterword: Decadent Taste |
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219 | (10) |
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| Appendix |
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229 | (7) |
| Select Bibliography |
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236 | (2) |
| Index |
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