The Dedalus Book of Decadence, Volume 1: Moral Ruins edited by Brian Stableford et al (see contents for full list of authors)
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Overview: Seminal study of decadence in Europe and America with texts.
This volume not only includes three dozen stories by the leading Decadent writers in France and Britain (18 each), but has an extensive introduction by Stableford which is a must-read in its own right.
Genre: Fantasy | Horror
Contents:
INTRODUCTION by Brian Stableford
MAD EMPERORS: THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA
RENEGADE ROMANTICS: THE BIRTH OF DECADENCE
GENIUS AND MADNESS: THE ATTRACTIONS OF DECADENCE
AGAINST NATURE: DECADENCE À LA MODE
FIN DE SIÈCLE: THE DECADENCE OF DECADENCE
THE YELLOW NINETIES: DECADENCE IN ENGLAND
INFLUENCES: DECADENCE IN OTHER NATIONS
ECHOES: THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DECADENCE
A SAMPLER OF FRENCH DECADENT TEXTS
TO THE READER by Charles Baudelaire
THE GLASS OF BLOOD by Jean Lorrain
LANGUOR by Paul Verlaine
THE GRAPE-GATHERERS OF SODOM by Rachilde
AFTER THE DELUGE by Arthur Rimbaud
DANAETTE by Remy de Gourmont
LITANY TO SATAN by Charles Baudelaire
THE BLACK NIGHTGOWN by Catulle Mendès
THE DOUBLE ROOM by Charles Baudelaire
THE POSSESSED by Jean Lorrain
SPLEEN by Paul Verlaine
THE FAUN by Remy de Gourmont
THE DRUNKEN BOAT by Arthur Rimbaud
THE PANTHER by Rachilde
SPLEEN by Charles Baudelaire
OLD FURNITURE by Catulle Mendès
DON JUAN IN HELL by Charles Baudelaire
DON JUAN’S SECRET by Remy de Gourmont
A SAMPLER OF ENGLISH DECADENT TEXTS
THEORETIKOS by Oscar Wilde
THE COURT OF VENUS by Aubrey Beardsley
SATIA DE SANGUINE by Algernon Charles Swinburne
THE DYING OF FRANCIS DONNE by Ernest Dowson
BAUDELAIRE by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
THE BASILISK by R. Murray Gilchrist
MAGIC by Lionel Johnson
THE OTHER SIDE by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE by Ernest Dowson
A SOMEWHAT SURPRISING CHAPTER by John Davidson
THE TRANSLATOR AND THE CHILDREN by James Elroy Flecker
POPE JACYNTH by Vernon Lee
INSOMNIA by John Davidson
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE by Oscar Wilde.
VINUM DAEMONUM by Lionel Johnson
ABSINTHIA TAETRA by Ernest Dowson
THE RING OF FAUSTUS by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
THE LAST GENERATION by James Elroy Flecker
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