1"use strict";(self.webpackChunkfriends_of_arthur_machen=self.webpackChunkfriends_of_arthur_machen||[]).push([[9560],{9796:function(e,t,n){n.r(t);var a=n(8453),o=n(6540);function r(e){const t=Object.assign({p:"p",em:"em"},(0,a.RP)(),e.components);return o.createElement(o.Fragment,null,o.createElement(t.p,null,"The trials and disgrace of Oscar Wilde, in 1895, were emblematic of a wider turning against the 1890s aesthetes and the culture they proclaimed. The year also saw the publication in Britain of Max Nordau's influential ",o.createElement(t.em,null,"Degeneration"),", a book of hysterical accusations against the evil influence of decadent and degenerate artists. The year was a turning-point for Machen and many other young artists and writers: as a result of the shift in climate, Machen would publish nothing for almost a decade, even though most of his finest work was written between 1895 and 1900. Luckily, Machen had earnings and legacies enough to continue writing through the late 1890s and so continued writing: the novel The Hill of Dreams, the prosepoem pieces which were eventually collected as Ornaments in Jade, the novellas ",o.createElement(t.em,null,'"The White People"')," and ",o.createElement(t.em,null,'"A Fragment of Life"'),", were all written at this time."),"\n",o.createElement(t.p,null,"In 1898 he returned to journalism as a sub-editor on Literature, the antecedent of today's Times Literary Supplement. His work led him to examine his own working creed as author and reader, and when he parted company with the journal he began work on Hieroglyphics, his exploration of literary theory. Machen had two good reasons for working very hard in the second half of the decade: one was that the legacies which had left him comfortably off at the beginning of the decade were diminishing: the other was that his wife, Amy, was slowly dying of cancer."))}t.default=function(e){void 0===e&&(e={});const{wrapper:t}=Object.assign({},(0,a.RP)(),e.components);return t?o.createElement(t,e,o.createElement(r,e)):r(e)}},8453:function(e,t,n){n.d(t,{RP:function(){return r}});var a=n(6540);const o=a.createContext({});function r(e){const t=a.useContext(o);return a.useMemo((()=>"function"==typeof e?e(t):{...t,...e}),[t,e])}}}]); 2//# sourceMappingURL=component---src-pages-biography-a-colder-climate-md-fe086995ca282507016e.js.map
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