Decadence and Catholicism by Ellis Hanson

Decadence and Catholicism

Ellis Hanson with Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator)

448 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction religion reflective medium-paced
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Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this roma...

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