Spackman, and others.
Hale, Terry (ed.),
Dedalus Book of French Horror: The Nineteenth Century
, trans. Liz Hale (London: Dedalus, 1998).
Stableford, Brian (ed.),
Moral Ruins: The Dedalus Book of Decadence
(London: Dedalus, 2001). A selection of poetry and prose fiction.
Gourmont, Remy de (ed.),
The Book of Masks
, trans. Andrew Mangavite, Iain White, Stanley Chapman, and others, Atlas Arkhive 2 (London: Atlas Press, 1995). Gourmont’s original essays are supplemented by extracts from the writers he analyses.
Luckhurst, Roger (ed.),
Late Victorian Gothic Tales
(Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 2005). Contains some French material (Jean Lorrain).
Classic Criticism of the Period
Huret, Jules,
Enquête sur l’évolution littéraire
(Paris: Charpentier, 1891; José Corti, 1999).
Kahn, Gustave,
Symbolistes et décadents
(Paris: Vanier, 1901; Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1977).
Praz, Mario,
The Romantic Agony
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978). Praz’s study (originally published in Italian in 1930) remains unsurpassed in its scope, an analysis of Romanticism (and its continuation in Decadence) from the point of view of the erotic sensibility.
Symons, Arthur,
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
, Introduction by Richard Ellmann (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958). Symons’s classic study, first published in 1899.
General Cultural and Literary Criticism
Baudelaire, Charles,
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
(London: Phaidon, 1995).
——
The Complete Verse
, trans. Francis Scarfe (London: Anvil Press Poetry, 2012).
Benjamin, Walter,
The Arcades Project
(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap and Harvard University Press, 2002).
Bonnefoy, Yves,
Sous le signe de Baudelaire
(Paris: Gallimard, 2011).
Carter, A. E.,
The Idea of Decadence in French Literature
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968).
Citti, Pierre,
Contre la Décadence. Histoire de l’imagination française dans le roman 1890–1914
(Paris: PUF, 1987).
Colin, René-Pierre,
Schopenhauer: un mythe naturaliste
(Paris: PUL, 1979).
Constable, Liz (ed.), with D. Denisoff and M. Potolsky,
Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
Dijkstra, Bram,
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in fin-de-siècle Culture
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Dowling, Linda,
Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Freud, Sigmund (with Josef Breuer),
Studies in Hysteria
(London: Penguin Classics, 2004).
Gourmont, Remy de,
La Culture des idées
(Paris: Union Générale d’Editions 10/18
fins de siècle
, 1983).
Hansen, Eric,
Disaffection and Decadence: A Crisis in French Intellectual Thought, 1848–1898
(Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982).
Hanson, Ellis,
Decadence and Catholicism
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997).
Henry, Anne (ed.),
Schopenhauer et la création littéraire en Europe
(Paris: Klincksieck, 1989).
Jacquette, Dale (ed.),
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Juin, Herbert,
Écrivains de l’avant-siècle
(Paris: Seghers, 1972).
Jullian, Philippe,
Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890s
(New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1974).
Ledger, Sally, and Luckhurst, Roger (eds.),
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880–1900
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Marquèze-Pouey, Louis,
Le Mouvement décadent en France
(Paris: PUF, 1986).
Michelet Jacquod, Valérie,
Le Roman symboliste: un art de l’extrême conscience
(Paris: Droz, 2008).
Nordau, Max,
Degeneration
(1892; Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1993).
Pykett, Lynn (ed.),
Reading fin de siècle Fictions
(London: Longman, 1996).
Pierrot, Jean,
The Decadent Imagination, 1880–1900
, trans. Derek Coltman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Showalter, Elaine,
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the fin de siècle
(New
Hale, Terry (ed.),
Dedalus Book of French Horror: The Nineteenth Century
, trans. Liz Hale (London: Dedalus, 1998).
Stableford, Brian (ed.),
Moral Ruins: The Dedalus Book of Decadence
(London: Dedalus, 2001). A selection of poetry and prose fiction.
Gourmont, Remy de (ed.),
The Book of Masks
, trans. Andrew Mangavite, Iain White, Stanley Chapman, and others, Atlas Arkhive 2 (London: Atlas Press, 1995). Gourmont’s original essays are supplemented by extracts from the writers he analyses.
Luckhurst, Roger (ed.),
Late Victorian Gothic Tales
(Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 2005). Contains some French material (Jean Lorrain).
Classic Criticism of the Period
Huret, Jules,
Enquête sur l’évolution littéraire
(Paris: Charpentier, 1891; José Corti, 1999).
Kahn, Gustave,
Symbolistes et décadents
(Paris: Vanier, 1901; Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1977).
Praz, Mario,
The Romantic Agony
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978). Praz’s study (originally published in Italian in 1930) remains unsurpassed in its scope, an analysis of Romanticism (and its continuation in Decadence) from the point of view of the erotic sensibility.
Symons, Arthur,
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
, Introduction by Richard Ellmann (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958). Symons’s classic study, first published in 1899.
General Cultural and Literary Criticism
Baudelaire, Charles,
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
(London: Phaidon, 1995).
——
The Complete Verse
, trans. Francis Scarfe (London: Anvil Press Poetry, 2012).
Benjamin, Walter,
The Arcades Project
(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap and Harvard University Press, 2002).
Bonnefoy, Yves,
Sous le signe de Baudelaire
(Paris: Gallimard, 2011).
Carter, A. E.,
The Idea of Decadence in French Literature
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968).
Citti, Pierre,
Contre la Décadence. Histoire de l’imagination française dans le roman 1890–1914
(Paris: PUF, 1987).
Colin, René-Pierre,
Schopenhauer: un mythe naturaliste
(Paris: PUL, 1979).
Constable, Liz (ed.), with D. Denisoff and M. Potolsky,
Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
Dijkstra, Bram,
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in fin-de-siècle Culture
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Dowling, Linda,
Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Freud, Sigmund (with Josef Breuer),
Studies in Hysteria
(London: Penguin Classics, 2004).
Gourmont, Remy de,
La Culture des idées
(Paris: Union Générale d’Editions 10/18
fins de siècle
, 1983).
Hansen, Eric,
Disaffection and Decadence: A Crisis in French Intellectual Thought, 1848–1898
(Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982).
Hanson, Ellis,
Decadence and Catholicism
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997).
Henry, Anne (ed.),
Schopenhauer et la création littéraire en Europe
(Paris: Klincksieck, 1989).
Jacquette, Dale (ed.),
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Juin, Herbert,
Écrivains de l’avant-siècle
(Paris: Seghers, 1972).
Jullian, Philippe,
Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890s
(New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1974).
Ledger, Sally, and Luckhurst, Roger (eds.),
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880–1900
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Marquèze-Pouey, Louis,
Le Mouvement décadent en France
(Paris: PUF, 1986).
Michelet Jacquod, Valérie,
Le Roman symboliste: un art de l’extrême conscience
(Paris: Droz, 2008).
Nordau, Max,
Degeneration
(1892; Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1993).
Pykett, Lynn (ed.),
Reading fin de siècle Fictions
(London: Longman, 1996).
Pierrot, Jean,
The Decadent Imagination, 1880–1900
, trans. Derek Coltman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Showalter, Elaine,
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the fin de siècle
(New
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