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The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence the Black Feast

by Brian Stableford (Editor)

Other authors: Charles Baudelaire (Contributor), Comte de Lautréamont (Contributor), John Davidson (Contributor), Remy de Gourmont (Contributor), Ernest Dowson (Contributor) — 21 more, James Elroy Flecker (Contributor), Anatole France (Contributor), Richard Garnett (Contributor), R. Murray Gilchrist (Contributor), Joris-Karl Huysmans (Contributor), Lady Dilke (Contributor), Vernon Lee (Contributor), Jean Lorrain (Contributor), Pierre Louÿs (Contributor), Stéphane Mallarm�� (Contributor), Catulle Mendes (Contributor), Octave Mirbeau (Contributor), WC Morrow (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Arthur Rimbaud (Contributor), Marcel Schwob (Contributor), Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (Contributor), George Sterling (Contributor), Algernon Charles Swinburne (Contributor), Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (Contributor), Oscar Wilde (Contributor)

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The Decadence 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.… (more)

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