The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France by Joséphin Péladan, Octave Mirbeau, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Rachilde, Peter Brooks, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, Jennifer Birkett, Barbara Spackman, Rémy de Gourmont, Janet Beizer, Phillipe Lejeune, Catulle Mendès, Jean Lorrain, Charles Bernheimer, Emily Apter, Richard Sieburth, Françoise Meltzer, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean Moréas, Asti Hustvedt

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
Joséphin Péladan, Octave Mirbeau, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Rachilde, Peter Brooks, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, Jennifer Birkett, Barbara Spackman, Rémy de Gourmont, Janet Beizer, Phillipe Lejeune, Catulle Mendès, Jean Lorrain, Charles Bernheimer, Emily Apter, Richard Sieburth, Françoise Meltzer, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean Moréas, Asti Hustvedt

1104 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

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In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of ...