Degeneration by NORDAU, Max - 1895

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University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lincoln & London: U. Of Nebraska, 1993. 566pp. Corners & ends of spine lightly rubbed & bumped; light soiling on edges. Footnotes & index.. 2nd Ed.. Pb. VG.

Paperback. Very Good.

APPLETON Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION REAR HINGE TENDER. .

University of Nebraska Press, 1993 This book has been kept in a plastic sleeve so is in perfect condition. Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois examplar of enterprise and energy when his Degeneration appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and inability to adjust or to act. Culture had degenerated, he said, and if criminals, prostitutes, anarchists, and lunatics were degenerates, so were the authors and artists of the era. Degeneration, and the controversy it aroused, served to define the fine de siècle. Its targets included Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Richard Wagner, Zola, and Walt Whitman. The book was enormously influential. Nordau anticipated Freud in describing art as a product of neurosis, and he set a precedent for psychological and sociological critiques of literature. You may wish to talk back to Degeneration, as George Bernard Shaw did, but you will be… Read More

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New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895. fourth edition. hardcover. Good +. Translated from the Second Edition of the German Work. Large octavo (approx. 6" wide by 8 7/8" tall), 566 [2] pages, includes index. Light brown covers with gilt titles and brown titles. Lacks front free endpaper. Small tear at head of spine, and spine darkened. No dust jacket. 070400A

New York: Appleton, 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in original cloth-covered boards. Rubbing on the boards and front hinge starting.