The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: Black Feast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781912868698)

The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization 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.

Author: Brian Stableford
ISBN-10: 1912868695
ISBN-13: 9781912868698
Publisher: Dedalus
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d