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

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

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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 ...