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SUMMARY:The Decadent Decade     English
DESCRIPTION:By Valerie Fehlbaum\n\nLe mercredi de 12h30 à 13h45\, les 20 s
 eptembre\, 4 et 18 octobre\, 1er\, 15 et 29 novembre\, 13 décembre 2023 e
 t 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 College\, Oxford\, Valerie Feh
 lbaum moved to Switzerland where she taught English as a Foreign Language 
 for a few years before joining the English Department 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\, Aberystwyth. Her subsequent 
 monograph on Ella Hepworth Dixon was initially published by Ashgate in 200
 5\, 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 Naughty Nineties’ or\, worse\,
  ‘La Fin de Siècle’ with the recourse to French suggesting the very d
 epths of depravity\, the last decade of the nineteenth century\, coincidin
 g as it did with the final years of Queen Victoria’s reign\, seemed to h
 erald\, for some at least\, the end of civilisation as they perceived it. 
 Abroad\, the Empire was showing serious signs of crumbling\, and at home s
 ocial conventions were being challenged as never before.\n\nAlthough the p
 eriod is now largely associated with Oscar Wilde\, this atelier will exami
 ne in detail the works of various other poets\, dramatists and writers of 
 fiction\, and attempt to evaluate the extent to which such fears of decade
 nce and degeneration were justified.\n\nTexts will include a selection of 
 poetry by\, for example\, Ernest Dowson\, Thomas Hardy\, Arthur Symons\, a
 nd W.B. Yeats\, Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw\, and som
 e short fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle\, Rudyard Kipling and Ella Hepworth 
 Dixon\, amongst others.
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