Decadence and Japan

In the second half of the nineteenth century, literary decadence developed in parallel with japonisme, the taste for Japanese art and culture that seized Western countries following Japan’s opening to foreign trade. This article starts with an analysis of how the intertwining of japonisme and art fo...

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Main Authors: Evangelista, S-M, Desmarais, J, Weir, D
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021