Bøger af Robert Azzarello

Argues that decadence can convey a more nuanced meaning than simple decay or decline conceived in physical, social, or moral terms. Instead, within New Orleans literature, decadence possesses a complex, even paradoxical relationship with beauty and health, progress, and technological advance.

Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, this book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. It challenges the notion that reading environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of aesthetics.