The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
Author(s): Brian STABLEFORD [Ed]
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a 'black feast' and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
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- : Dedalus Books Limited
- : Dedalus Books Limited
- : 01 July 2021
- : 01 September 2021
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- : Brian STABLEFORD [Ed]
- : Paperback
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