Review: Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival, by Dennis Denisoff

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NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1525/ncl.2023.78.1.80

L. Wilhelm

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Casting fresh light on late nineteenthand early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science, and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive inluence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen, and others to address transtemporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; feminist decadence; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary, and transnational discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities – primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman, and Egyptian – in the framing of personal, social, and national identities.

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评论:英国文学和艺术中的颓废生态，1860-1910:腐朽、欲望和异教复兴，丹尼斯·丹尼索夫著

《颓废生态学》为19世纪末和20世纪初的英国艺术、文学、生态科学和异教提供了新的视角，揭示了颓废和异教对现代人对自然和环境的理解、酷儿和女权主义政治、国家身份和不断变化的社会等级制度的普遍影响。这项跨学科研究将环境人文学科的学术与美学和文学理论相结合，深入挖掘了西蒙·所罗门、阿尔杰农·斯温伯恩、沃尔特·佩特、罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森、弗农·李、迈克尔·菲尔德、亚瑟·马琴等人的作品，以解决跨时间、跨物种的亲密关系；流浪的地方；腐烂的色情；神秘生态学；女性颓废；以及新异教。《颓废生态学》揭示了在现代生态、环境、进化和跨国话语的形成过程中，艺术和科学之间相互影响的关系，同时也突出了新的和正在恢复的异教精神——主要是凯尔特人、北欧日耳曼人、希腊罗马人和埃及人——在个人、社会、，以及国家身份。

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期刊介绍： From Ozymandias to Huckleberry Finn, Nineteenth-Century Literature unites a broad-based group of transatlantic authors and poets, literary characters, and discourses - all discussed with a keen understanding of nineteenth -century literary history and theory. The major journal for publication of new research in its field, Nineteenth-Century Literature features articles that span across disciplines and explore themes in gender, history, military studies, psychology, cultural studies, and urbanism. The journal also reviews annually over 70 volumes of scholarship, criticism, comparative studies, and new editions of nineteenth-century English and American literature.