The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: Black Feast

by Brian M. Stableford

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912868695
• ISBN13: 9781912868698
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.9" x 7.7"