Interview explores decadence and its impact on culture and literature in America, highlighting its significance.
Kate Hext and Alex Murray are two of the leading figures in the study of literature and the arts in and around the fin de siècle, the period during which the aesthetic as a value in and of itself was most promoted. In this interview they discuss the concept of “decadence”, America’s relation to this formative period, and reflect on cultural diagnostics.
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