The Decadent Movement
In Our Time: Culture
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What Makes Decadence So Dangerous?
Nis comes from largely, as Kate has already said, from sex and sexuality. Often a lot of the moral outrage was to do with the explicit exploration of heterosexuality. Arthur Simmons' poems almost all seem to involve post-coital moments of voluptuousness that are being recalled. She's labeled an erosimaniac and it's called neuropathic fiction. This idea that literature that's exploring sexuality is shocking really does shock a lot of literary establishment.
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