What is it about?
An overview of some influential books and articles about decadence and the 1890s published since Richard Ellman's 'Oscar Wilde' (1987).
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Why is it important?
There's a lot of scholarly work on late-Victorian decadence. This essay may help readers find their way through the maze.
Perspectives
I've been fascinated by literary decadence since I read M. John Harrison's 'In Viriconium' and Michael Moorcock's 'The Dancers at the End of Time' at some point in the early 1980s. The rest is (literary) history.
Nick Freeman
Loughborough University
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This page is a summary of: ‘Poisonous honey’: Recent writing on decadence and the 1890s, Literature Compass, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12392.
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