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Decadence, Degeneration, Decline: The Popular British Novel 
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The focus of our analysis is the novel's response to three kinds of breakdown: aesthetic decadence, imperial decline, and aristocratic degeneration.

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  • The British Empire controlled roughly a quarter of the world by the beginning of the twentieth century; its literature, however, was increasingly haunted by decline
  • This course explores why, by way of writers like Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, T.S. Eliot, and Graham Greene
  • The focus of our analysis is the novel's response to three kinds of breakdown: aesthetic decadence, imperial decline, and aristocratic degeneration
  • We draw on contemporary periodicals, paintings, films, and poetry to understand what makes these narratives so good for literary business
  • We also think about decline as a shaper of modernism, the relationship between decline and nationalism, and the cultural afterlives of the texts we encounter
  • For complete and current details about this Harvard Extension course, see the description in the DCE Course Search
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Decadence, Degeneration, Decline: The Popular British Novel
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Literature

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Decadence, Degeneration, Decline: The Popular British Novel
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Margaret Deli

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