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Decadence Buddenbrooks portrays the downfall of a materialistic society. [Ger. Lit.: Buddenbrooks] focal point of the declining Ranevsky estate. [Russ. Drama: Chekhov The Cherry Orchard in Magill II, 144] dissatisfied psychiatrist goes downhill on alcohol. [Am. Lit.: Tender is the Night] beautiful youth whose hedonism leads to vice and depravity. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray] 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald symbolizes corruption and decadence. [Am. Lit.: The Great Gatsby] eerie, decayed mansion collapses as master dies. [Am. Lit.: “Fall of the House of Usher” in Tales of Terror] Chicago Irishman whose life is one of physical and moral deterioration (1935). [Am. Lit.: Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy, Magill III, 1028–1030] novel portraying the teeming greed of the city’s inhabitants. [Am. Lit.: Manhattan Transfer] indictment of social decay during Napoleon III’s reign (1860s). [Fr. Lit.: Nana, Magill I, 638–640] records the decay of a society. [Fr. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 630] novel by Petronius depicting social excesses in imperial Rome. [Rom. Lit.: Magill II, 938] moral collapse of expatriots. [Am. Lit.: The Sun Also Rises] Faulkner novel about an old Southern family gone to seed: victims of lust, incest, suicide, and idiocy. [Am. Lit.: Magill I, 917] Haredale’s house, “mouldering to ruin.” [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge] northern Mississippi; decadent setting for Faulkner’s novels. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 955] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar, finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes appealed to his sympathy, and in his chosen words, quite exquisitely, there appeared a rococo beauty. It may be that in the larger design of the universe this invasion from Mars is not without its ultimate benefit for men; it has robbed us of that serene confidence in the future which is the most fruitful source of decadence, the gifts to human science it has brought are enormous, and it has done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind. When the decadence attacks a nature naturally proud and selfish and vain, and lacking both the aptitude and habit of self-restraint, the development of the disease is more swift, and ranges to farther limits. |
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