Review: Kate Hext and Alex Murray (eds), Decadence in the Age of Modernism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

Abstract

The broad premise of Decadence in the Age of Modernism – that the relationship between decadence and modernism is not so much contiguous as continuous – is one that has been steadily gaining traction in recent years. This collection of essays offers a series of fascinating examples that illuminate the nuances of this relationship and, crucially, collectively draw attention to the plurality of both traditions in a period too often dominated by the high modernist canon.