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ecadence Catholicism and Ellis Hanson DECADENCE AND CATHOLICISM Decadence and Catholicism Ellis Hanson Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 1997 Thomas 1 Bata Library TRENI oNi'/ERSi i Y PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO N5(**DH5 H3 Lp Copyright © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Publication of this book was aided by the Hull Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hanson, Ellis, 1965- Decadence and Catholicism / Ellis Hanson, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-19444-6 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-674-19446-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Decadence (Literary movement) 2. Literature, Modern—19th century—History and criticism. 3. Religion and literature. 4. Catholics in literature. I. Title. PN56.D45H36 1997 840.9T1—dc21 97-20127 Tod. “Charitons ses louanges.” —Paul Verlaine Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/decadencecatholiOOOOhans ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank those friends who have read individual chapters of this book in manuscript form and offered their comments or rec¬ ommendations, namely Diana Fuss, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jonathan Arac, Lindsay Waters, Charles Bernheimer, Michael Cadden, Deborah Nord, and Lawrence Danson. I am especially grateful to U. C. Knoepflmacher and Elaine Showalter for their friendship and their critical attention to my prose throughout the writing of this book. I would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the National Library of Scotland, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, the Staatliche Kunsthalle (Karlsruhe), the Wellcome Centre for Medical Science, the Hull Memorial Publication Lund of Cornell University, and research funding offered by the Prince¬ ton University Department of English.
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