Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: Black Feast

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.

Editor: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Dedalus Limited
Pages: 288pp
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 x 1
Notes: paperback
Release Date: February 14, 2022
ISBN: 978-1912868698