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It is a feat to demystify decadence genially while dealing with unsavory material usually presented complicitously. But Whissen achieves even more. He is not looking at counterculture literature but at mainstream literature in which the reader either senses something decadent in the writer's attitude or identifies some rhetorical device associated with the decadence...He focuses chiefly on authors who have been studied from other perspectives ...

., ."Since many of the novels treated in (this book) frequently appear on required reading lists in high schools and colleges, this will be an especially suitable purchase for those types of libraries as well as for public libraries." Reference Books Bulletin