Decadence and Catholicism, Paperback/Ellis Hanson

The decadents-including Wilde, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Pater, and Verlaine-found in the Catholic Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. Hanson shows how Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism. Publisher: Harvard University Press Author(s): Ellis Hanson Illustration(s): 10 halftones Number of pages: 448 Publication date: 1998 Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 28 Cover type: Paperback / softback