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SUMMARY:The Decadent Decade     English
DESCRIPTION:By Valerie Fehlbaum\n\nLe mercredi de 12h30 à 13h45\, commenc
 é en 2023 et se poursuivant les 10 et 24 janvier\, 7 et 28 février\, 13 
 et 27 mars\, 17 avril 2024\n\nAfter obtaining her B.A. at St Hilda’s Col
 lege\, Oxford\, Valerie Fehlbaum moved to Switzerland where she taught Eng
 lish as a Foreign Language for a few years before joining the English Depa
 rtment at the University of Geneva. She then went on to obtain an M.A. in 
 Gender Studies and a Ph.D. on the New Woman at the University of Wales\, A
 berystwyth. Her subsequent monograph on Ella Hepworth Dixon was initially 
 published by Ashgate in 2005\, and republished in paperback by Taylor &amp
 \; Francis in 2019. She has also lectured at the University of Neuchâtel\
 , and tutored with the Open University.\n\nOtherwise known as ‘The Naugh
 ty Nineties’ or\, worse\, ‘La Fin de Siècle’ with the recourse to F
 rench suggesting the very depths of depravity\, the last decade of the nin
 eteenth century\, coinciding as it did with the final years of Queen Victo
 ria’s reign\, seemed to herald\, for some at least\, the end of civilisa
 tion as they perceived it. Abroad\, the Empire was showing serious signs o
 f crumbling\, and at home social conventions were being challenged as neve
 r before.\n\nAlthough the period is now largely associated with Oscar Wild
 e\, this atelier will examine in detail the works of various other poets\,
  dramatists and writers of fiction\, and attempt to evaluate the extent to
  which such fears of decadence and degeneration were justified.\n\nTexts w
 ill include a selection of poetry by\, for example\, Ernest Dowson\, Thoma
 s Hardy\, Arthur Symons\, and W.B. Yeats\, Mrs Warren’s Profession by Ge
 orge Bernard Shaw\, and some short fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle\, Rudyard
  Kipling and Ella Hepworth Dixon\, amongst others.
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