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Introductory Materials

• Points of Departure
• Origins of the Terms
• Theories about the Aesthetes and Decadents
• Ruskin, Wilde, Satire, and the Birth of Aestheticism
• Otto M. Urban's approach to Decadence in the Czecholovakia and the Bohemian Lands
• Review of Grace Lavery's Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan

Literature

• Authors associated with these movements
• Charles Baudelaire and British Decadents
• Genre, Style, and Mode

The Visual Arts

• British Painting, Illustration, and Design
• European Painting, Illustration, and Design
• Related Architecture

Themes and Techniques in Art, Literature, and Design

• Themes
• Imagery

Social and Political Contexts

• Political History
• Social History
• Religious themes and contexts
• Science

Miscellaneous

• Leading Questions
• Related Web Resources

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