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Decadence

Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

161. Decadence

Buddenbrooks portrays the downfall of a materialistic society. [Ger. Lit.: Buddenbrooks ]
cherry orchard focal point of the declining Ranevsky estate. [Russ. Drama: Chekhov The Cherry Orchard in Magill II, 144]
Diver, Dick dissatisfied psychiatrist goes downhill on alcohol. [Am. Lit.: Tender is the Night ]
Gray, Dorian beautiful youth whose hedonism leads to vice and depravity. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray ]
Great Gatsby, The 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald symbolizes corruption and decadence. [Am. Lit.: The Great Gatsby ]
House of Usher eerie, decayed mansion collapses as master dies. [Am. Lit.: “Fall of the House of Usher” in Tales of Terror ]
Lonigan, Studs Chicago Irishman whose life is one of physical and moral deterioration (1935). [Am. Lit.: Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy, Magill III, 1028–1030]
Manhattan Transfer novel portraying the teeming greed of the city’s inhabitants. [Am. Lit.: Manhattan Transfer ]
Nana indictment of social decay during Napoleon III’s reign (1860s). [Fr. Lit.: Nana, Magill I, 638–640]
Remembrance of Things Past records the decay of a society. [Fr. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 630]
Satyricon novel by Petronius depicting social excesses in imperial Rome. [Rom. Lit.: Magill II, 938]
Sun Also Rises, The moral collapse of expatriots. [Am. Lit.: The Sun Also Rises ]
Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner novel about an old Southern family gone to seed: victims of lust, incest, suicide, and idiocy. [Am. Lit.: Magill I, 917]
Warren, The Haredale’s house, “mouldering to ruin.” [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge ]
Yoknapatawpha County northern Mississippi; decadent setting for Faulkner’s novels. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 955]

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decadence

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

dec·a·dence / ˈdekədəns/ • n. moral or cultural decline, esp. after a peak or culmination of achievement. ∎ behavior reflecting such a decline. ∎ luxurious self-indulgence.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

decadence XVI. — F. décadence — medL. dēcadentia, f. dēcadēre DECAY.
So decadent XIX.

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Decadence

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Decadence, see Modernism.

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