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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction: ‘The Old Age of the World’
- Part I From Late To Post-Romanticism
- 1 The Spirit of the Age
- 2 ‘A Book Read to its End’: The Post-Napoleonic Consciousness
- 3 Late Romanticism and ‘Lastness’
- 4 French Romanticism and the Spirit of the Past
- 5 <i>Epigonentum</i> in Germany of the 1830s
- Part II Decadence
- 6 Modes of Falling: Romantic <i>Décadence</i> in the 1830s
- 7 ‘Ageing Passions’: 1850s–60s
- 8 French Models of Lateness in the 1880s
- 9 English Decadence: ‘Late-Learning’ in a French School
- 10 Friedrich Nietzsche and the ‘Latecomers’ of Modernity
- 11 ‘<i>Fin de Siècle</i> and No End’: The Austrian Art of Being Late
- Part III Modernism
- 12 Lateness as ‘Embarrassment’: Paul Valéry
- 13 Lateness as ‘Decline’: Oswald Spengler, Nicholas Berdyaev, Helmuth Plessner, Arnold Gehlen
- 14 Lateness as ‘a European Language’: Theodor W. Adorno and Late Style
- 15 Lateness as ‘Hollowing Out’: Thomas Mann, Ernst Bloch, Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence
- 16 Lateness as ‘Myth’: T.S. Eliot, Eugène Jolas, Gottfried Benn, Hermann Broch
- 17 Lateness as ‘Eschatology’: Futurism, Expressionism, Decadent Modernism
- Epilogue: The Vertigo of Lateness
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Source:
- Lateness and Modern European Literature
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction: ‘The Old Age of the World’
- Part I From Late To Post-Romanticism
- 1 The Spirit of the Age
- 2 ‘A Book Read to its End’: The Post-Napoleonic Consciousness
- 3 Late Romanticism and ‘Lastness’
- 4 French Romanticism and the Spirit of the Past
- 5 <i>Epigonentum</i> in Germany of the 1830s
- Part II Decadence
- 6 Modes of Falling: Romantic <i>Décadence</i> in the 1830s
- 7 ‘Ageing Passions’: 1850s–60s
- 8 French Models of Lateness in the 1880s
- 9 English Decadence: ‘Late-Learning’ in a French School
- 10 Friedrich Nietzsche and the ‘Latecomers’ of Modernity
- 11 ‘<i>Fin de Siècle</i> and No End’: The Austrian Art of Being Late
- Part III Modernism
- 12 Lateness as ‘Embarrassment’: Paul Valéry
- 13 Lateness as ‘Decline’: Oswald Spengler, Nicholas Berdyaev, Helmuth Plessner, Arnold Gehlen
- 14 Lateness as ‘a European Language’: Theodor W. Adorno and Late Style
- 15 Lateness as ‘Hollowing Out’: Thomas Mann, Ernst Bloch, Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence
- 16 Lateness as ‘Myth’: T.S. Eliot, Eugène Jolas, Gottfried Benn, Hermann Broch
- 17 Lateness as ‘Eschatology’: Futurism, Expressionism, Decadent Modernism
- Epilogue: The Vertigo of Lateness
- Bibliography
- Index
