The Dedalus book of decadence : (moral ruins) / edited by Brian Stableford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stableford, Brian M., editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Decadence from Dedalus

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Decadence (Literary movement)--Great Britain.

Decadence (Literary movement).

French literature--19th century--Translations into English.

French literature.

Decadence (Literary movement)--France.

Physical Description:

283 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

New Dedalus edition.

Other Title:

Moral ruins

Place of Publication:

Sawtry, Cambridgeshire : Dedalus ltd, 2021

Language Note:

Some stories translated from the French.

Contents:

Introduction: 1. Mad emperors ; 2. Renegade romantics ; 3. Genius and madness ; 4. Against nature ; 5. Fin de siècle ; 6. The yellow nineties ; 7. Influences ; 8. Echoes / Brian Stableford.

A sampler of French decadent texts: 1. To the reader / by Charles Baudelaire

2. The glass of blood / by Jean Lorrain

3. Languor / by Paul Verlaine

4. The grape-gatherers of Sodom / by Rachilde

5. After the deluge / by Arthur Rimbaud

6. Danaette / by Remy de Gourmont

7. Litany to Satan / by Charles Baudelaire

8. The black nightgown / by Catulle Mendès

9. The double room / by Charles Baudelaire

10. The possessed / by Jean Lorrain

11. Spleen / by Paul Verlaine

12. The faun / by Remy de Gourmont

13. The drunken boat / by Arthur Rimbaud

14. The panther / by Rachilde

15. Spleen / by Charles Baudelaire

16. Old furniture / by Catulle Mendès

17. Don Juan in hell / by Charles Baudelaire

18. Don Juan’s secret / by Remy de Gourmont.

A sampler of English decadent texts: 1. Theoretikos / by Oscar Wilde

2. The court of Venus / by Aubrey Beardsley

3. Satia de sanguine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne

4. The dying of Francis Donne / by Ernest Dowson

5. Baudelaire / by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

6. The basilisk / by R. Murray Gilchrist

7. Magic / by Lionel Johnson

8. The other side / by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock

9. Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae / by Ernest Dowson

10. A somewhat surprising chapter / by John Davidson

11. The translator and the children / by James Elroy Flecker

12. Pope Jacynth / by Vernon Lee

13. Insomnia / by John Davidson

14. The nightingale and the rose / by Oscar Wilde

15. Vinum daemonum / by Lionel Johnson

16. Absinthia taetra / by Ernest Dowson

17. The ring of Faustus / by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

18. The last generation / by James Elroy Flecker.

Notes:

"The first part of Brian Stableford's seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement."--Cover page 4.

ISBN:

1912868687

9781912868681

OCLC:

1240306233

Publisher Number:

99991568289