Primary bibliography on decadence

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This primary bibliography was compiled by Prof. Elisa Bizzotto (IUAV)

Beckson, Karl, Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Prose and Poetry (Chicago: Academy, 1982).

Desmarais, Jane, and David Weir, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Decadence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).

Desmarais, Jane, and David Weir, eds, Cambridge Critical Concepts: Decadence and Literature, ed. Desmarais (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Denisoff, Dennis, ‘Decadence and Aestheticism’, in Gail Marshall, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle, (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), pp. 31-52.

Evangelista, Stefano, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle. Citizens of Nowhere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Fletcher, Ian, ed., Decadence and the 1890s (London: Edward Arnold, 1979).

Hext, Kate, and Alex Murray, eds, Decadence in the Age of Modernism (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2019).

Ledger, Sally, ‘Wilde Women and the Yellow Book: The Sexual Politics of Aestheticism and Decadence, ELT, 1880-1920, 50/Part 1 (2007), 5-26.

Murray, Alex, ed., Decadence: A Literary History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Stetz, Margaret D., ‘The Afterlives of Aestheticism and Decadence in the Twenty-First Century’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 38/1 (2010), 306-11.

Temple, Ruth Z., ‘Truth in Labelling: Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Decadence, Fin de Siècle’, ELT, 17/4 (1974), 201-22.

Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, ed. by Jane Desmarais https://volupte.gold.ac.uk/home (all issues)

Weir, David, Decadence. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: oxford University Press, 2018).