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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2020 Cambridge University Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1 Nineteenth-Century Decadence and Neoclassical Aesthetics: Androgyny, Ambiguity and Collecting Culture, 2 British Decadence and Renaissance Italy, 3 'Rather a Delicate Subject': Verlaine, France and British Decadence, 4 Fighting Like Cats and Dogs: Decadence and Print Media, 5 Varieties of Decadent Religion, 6 The New Woman and Decadent Gender Politics, 7 Decadence, Darwinism, Science and Technological Modernity, 8 Decadence and Politics, 9 Seeds of Discord: Decadent Sexuality and Dissipating Species, 10 Decadent Poetics after Swinburne, 11 Theatre and Decadence, 12 'Restless Mystical Ardours': Decadence and Music, 13 Decadence in Painting, 14 Decadent Poetry and Translation: The Suffusive and the Prosodic, 15 Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence, 16 Decadent America 1890-1930, 17 Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom, 18 A Politics of Modernism in the Poetics of Decadence, 19 Camp Modernism and Decadence, 20 Making Decadence New: Carl Van Vechten's Cinematic Fiction, 21 Writing Decadent Lives and Letters, 22 Decadence in the Time of AIDS.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wonderfully illustrated front cover by Rex Woods depicts two medieval musicians performing a Christmas tune. 96 pages. Features: Charming colour ad for Green Giant canned tomatoes inside front cover includes map of Essex County, Ontario, where "the swankiest tomatoes in Canada' are grown; Nice one-page ad for the 1937 Chevrolet; Christmas 1936-2000 - a thoughtful article on the the future of the church and those born in 1936; Gorgeous one-page colour ad for the new 1937 V-8 Ford cars, featuring a maroon sedan; Lucky Keyes - short story by A.D. Divine; Silver Legs - short story by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Christmas poems; I Was A Stranger - a true Canadian story as told to Janet Erskine Scott; Santa Claus for a Quarter - short story by Emma-Lindsay Squier; The Transit of Venus - short story by Gertrude Macaulay Sutton; Fog Over Fundy - short story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Marvelous one-page colour-illustrated Campbell's Soup ad features grocer talking to well-heeled lady; Teens and Twenties; Fulfill Wishes - by Eva Nagel Wolf; Nice one-page ad for Jane Seymour Beauty Preparations; Movie reviews of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "The Gorgeous Hussy", "Craig's Wife", and "Seven Sinners"; A Peek at the Books - Margaret Lawrence reports on the Toronto Book Fair; One-page Carnation Milk ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Lovely one-page colour ad for Five Roses flour features Christmas baking; Eight delicious-looking recipes by Mona Parr for Christmas puddings and sauces - Rich Plum, Plum, Simple Dark Fruit, Carrot, Fluffy Mocha, Chilled Moulded Plum, Hard Sauce, Brown Sugar Sauce; One-page Libby's baby food ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Fashion ideas - 'Dresses for Dates'; Delightful page of illustrations to be cut out entitled "Mary Lou and Bobby's Christmas" by Lydia Fraser; and more. A quality copy of this heartwarming depression-era piece of Christmas Canadiana. Woods, Rex; Fischer, Anton Otto; Klett, Walter; Wilcox, C.R.; Ball, Seymour; Dahlberg, Edwin; Merwin, Decie (illustrator).…