Emma Sutton works at the English Department in the University of Edinburgh

This book shows an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship. It provides a wealth of scholarly citation, plentiful detailed information, and some material that is either new or little emphasized ... it is a pleasure, moreover, that [Sutton's] book employs user-friendly footnotes at the bottom of each page, instead of resorting to much more cumbersome endnotes.

• Introduction: Wagnerism in Britain in the 1890s ; 1. Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde ; 2. The pathology of pleasure: decadent sensibility and affective art ; 3. Wagnerites en masse: the audience as spectacle ; 4. Commercialism and consumerism: Wagnerism in The Savoy ; 5. Antiquarianism and national identity: Under the Hill ; 6. Concluding the cycle: Das Rheingold ; Epilogue: framing the decade ; Select bibliography ; Index

Emma Sutton works at the English Department in the University of Edinburgh

This book shows an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship. It provides a wealth of scholarly citation, plentiful detailed information, and some material that is either new or little emphasized ... it is a pleasure, moreover, that [Sutton's] book employs user-friendly footnotes at the bottom of each page, instead of resorting to much more cumbersome endnotes.

• Introduction: Wagnerism in Britain in the 1890s ; 1. Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde ; 2. The pathology of pleasure: decadent sensibility and affective art ; 3. Wagnerites en masse: the audience as spectacle ; 4. Commercialism and consumerism: Wagnerism in The Savoy ; 5. Antiquarianism and national identity: Under the Hill ; 6. Concluding the cycle: Das Rheingold ; Epilogue: framing the decade ; Select bibliography ; Index

Emma Sutton works at the English Department in the University of Edinburgh

This book shows an impressive breadth and depth of scholarship. It provides a wealth of scholarly citation, plentiful detailed information, and some material that is either new or little emphasized ... it is a pleasure, moreover, that [Sutton's] book employs user-friendly footnotes at the bottom of each page, instead of resorting to much more cumbersome endnotes.

• Introduction: Wagnerism in Britain in the 1890s ; 1. Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde ; 2. The pathology of pleasure: decadent sensibility and affective art ; 3. Wagnerites en masse: the audience as spectacle ; 4. Commercialism and consumerism: Wagnerism in The Savoy ; 5. Antiquarianism and national identity: Under the Hill ; 6. Concluding the cycle: Das Rheingold ; Epilogue: framing the decade ; Select bibliography ; Index