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The Decadent Counterpublic
This paper argues that decadent writers were highly self-conscious about their relationship to their readers, and that they regarded this relationship as a form of anti-nationalist political critique. Drawing upon Michael Warnerâs notion of a âcounterpublic,â the paper demonstrates the way two writers from the periodâCharles Baudelaire and Aubrey Beardselyâdepict and encourage the formation of cosmopolitan communities of taste in and through their accounts of the TannhĂ€user legend