The Dedalus Book of Decadence, Volume 1: Moral Ruins

✍ Scribed by Brian Stableford (ed.); Brian Stableford (introduction); Charles Baudelaire; Jean Lorrain; Paul Verlaine; Rachilde; Arthur Rimbaud; Remy de Gourmont; Catulle Mendès; Oscar Wilde; Aubrey Beardsley; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Ernest Dowson; Eugene Lee-Hamilton; R. Murray Gilchrist; Lionel Johnson; Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock; John Davidson; James Elroy Flecker; Vernon Lee

• Book ID: 107901740
• Publisher: Dedalus Limited
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Series: Dedalus Book of Decadence 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Seminal study of decadence in Europe and America with texts.

About the Author

Brian Michael Stableford (born 25 July 1948) is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 65 novels.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

1. MAD EMPERORS: THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA
2. RENEGADE ROMANTICS: THE BIRTH OF DECADENCE
3. GENIUS AND MADNESS: THE ATTRACTIONS OF DECADENCE
4. AGAINST NATURE: DECADENCE À LA MODE
5. FIN DE SIÈCLE: THE DECADENCE OF DECADENCE
6. THE YELLOW NINETIES: DECADENCE IN ENGLAND
7. INFLUENCES: DECADENCE IN OTHER NATIONS
8. ECHOES: THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DECADENCE

A SAMPLER OF FRENCH DECADENT TEXTS

1. TO THE READER by Charles Baudelaire
2. THE GLASS OF BLOOD by Jean Lorrain
3. LANGUOR by Paul Verlaine
4. THE GRAPE-GATHERERS OF SODOM by Rachilde
5. AFTER THE DELUGE by Arthur Rimbaud
6. DANAETTE by Remy de Gourmont
7. LITANY TO SATAN by Charles Baudelaire
8. THE BLACK NIGHTGOWN by Catulle Mendès
9. THE DOUBLE ROOM by Charles Baudelaire
10. THE POSSESSED by Jean Lorrain
11. SPLEEN by Paul Verlaine
12. THE FAUN by Remy de Gourmont
13. THE DRUNKEN BOAT by Arthur Rimbaud
14. THE PANTHER by Rachilde
15. SPLEEN by Charles Baudelaire
16. OLD FURNITURE by Catulle Mendès
17. DON JUAN IN HELL by Charles Baudelaire
18. DON JUAN’S SECRET by Remy de Gourmont

A SAMPLER OF ENGLISH DECADENT TEXTS

1. THEORETIKOS by Oscar Wilde
2. THE COURT OF VENUS by Aubrey Beardsley
3. SATIA DE SANGUINE by Algernon Charles Swinburne
4. THE DYING OF FRANCIS DONNE by Ernest Dowson
5. BAUDELAIRE by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
6. THE BASILISK by R. Murray Gilchrist
7. MAGIC by Lionel Johnson
8. THE OTHER SIDE by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
9. NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE by Ernest Dowson
10. A SOMEWHAT SURPRISING CHAPTER by John Davidson
11. THE TRANSLATOR AND THE CHILDREN by James Elroy Flecker
12. POPE JACYNTH by Vernon Lee
13. INSOMNIA by John Davidson
14. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE by Oscar Wilde.
15. VINUM DAEMONUM by Lionel Johnson
16. ABSINTHIA TAETRA by Ernest Dowson
17. THE RING OF FAUSTUS by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
18. THE LAST GENERATION by James Elroy Flecker