The bold, unconventional humor of Decline and Fall is certainly indebted to the work of such late-Victorian figures as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, who were instrumental in playfully and irreverently breaking down the overbearing moral earnestness of the Victorian tradition. The satiric outrageousness of its dialogue and portrayal of character reflects the influence of Ronald Firbank, whose novels combined solid.....
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