Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France: From Anarchism to Action francaise

Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important developments in modern French poetry: from the post-Commune climate that spawned the ‘decadent’ movement, through to the (allegedly) ivory-towered aestheticism of Mallarme and the Symbolists.