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5. Cavafy’s Byzantium: Historicizing Fantasies of Exquisite Decline
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Peter Jeffreys
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Prologue: “Dangerous Thoughts” ix
- 1. “Aesthetic to the point of affliction”: Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1. “Aesthetic to the point of affliction”: Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1
- 2. Translating Baudelaire: L’esprit Décadent and the Early Writings 26
- 3. Pictorialist Poetics: Transpositioning Word and Image 57
- 4. Paterian Decadence: Hellenism, Hedonism, and the Matter of Rome 93
- 5. Cavafy’s Byzantium: Historicizing Fantasies of Exquisite Decline 122
- Epilogue: Decadence’s Gay Legacy 159
- Bibliography 175
- Notes 203
- Acknowledgments 235
- Index 237
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Prologue: “Dangerous Thoughts” ix
- 1. “Aesthetic to the point of affliction”: Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1. “Aesthetic to the point of affliction”: Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1
- 2. Translating Baudelaire: L’esprit Décadent and the Early Writings 26
- 3. Pictorialist Poetics: Transpositioning Word and Image 57
- 4. Paterian Decadence: Hellenism, Hedonism, and the Matter of Rome 93
- 5. Cavafy’s Byzantium: Historicizing Fantasies of Exquisite Decline 122
- Epilogue: Decadence’s Gay Legacy 159
- Bibliography 175
- Notes 203
- Acknowledgments 235
- Index 237
