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Title: Second Dedalus Book of Decadence (The Black Feast), The
Author: STABLEFORD BRIAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/09/2021
Imprint: DEDALUS PRESS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation 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.
ISBN: 9781912868698
Dimension: 198mm X 126mm