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The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence : The Black Feast

The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence : The Black Feast

Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: DEDALUS LTD
Publication Date: 14 Feb 2022
ISBN-13: 9781912868698
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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 civilization 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.






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