David Weir (academic) explained

David Weir (; born 1947) is an American scholar who has written widely on the Decadent movement in literature and its impact in America. Weir is Professor Emeritus on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Bibliography

• Decadence and the Making of Modernism (1995)
• James Joyce and the Art of Mediation (1996)
• Anarchy and Culture (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture) (1997)
• Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance (2003)
• Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and Literature Against the American Grain, 1890-1926 (2009)
• American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century (2011)

References

• Elizabeth Brunazzi . Decadence and the Making of Modernism by David Weir (review) . James Joyce Quarterly . 34 . 3 . 398–400 . 25473826 . Spring 1997 .
• Christian Moraru . Decadence and the Making of Modernism, and The Ghosts of Modernity (review) . MFS Modern Fiction Studies . 43 . 2 . 501–505 . Summer 1997 . 10.1353/mfs.1997.0045 . 161315177 .
• Tom Lutz . David Weir, Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and Literature Against the American Grain, 1890–1926 (review) . Modern Philology . 109 . 3 . E204–E206 . 10.1086/663602 . February 2012 . 10.1086/663602. 162263597 .