Individualism, Decadence and Globalization - On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859–1920 - Regenia Gagnier - Hardback Bog - Palgrave Macmillan -

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Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.