Katharina Herold-Zanker is an Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at Durham University. Her principal interests are in late-Victorian literature, Comparative Literature and twenty-first century drama. Her journal publications include an article on intermediality in the Decadent performance of Anita Berber and an article for ^iFeminist Modernist Studies on war plays written by Mina Loy, Vernon Lee and Else Lasker-Schüler. After finishing her doctorate at Oxford, she was employed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she started research on her current project investigating the impact of feminist literary theories on contemporary Anglophone drama.

Katharina Herold-Zanker's Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920: 'The Indispensable East' is a groundbreaking, indispensable book. ..Herold-Zanker's book is of great significance. Studies of European decadence will from this point on have to accommodate its findings and respond to its arguments.

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Note on Translations Introduction. Perfect and Poisonous Dependencies: Orientalism and Decadence 1: ‘Away to Egypt’: Oscar Wilde and Orientalist Objectification 2: ‘Against Civilisation’: Arthur Symons and Violet Fane’s Fictions of Constantinople 3: ‘Feeling Oriental’: Embodied Orients in Decadent Writing by Paul Scheerbart and Else Lasker-Schüler 4: ‘Ex septentrione lux’: Stefan George’s Cosmopolitan Empire and Aesthetic Fascism Conclusion: ‘The Indispensable East’ Bibliography Index

Katharina Herold-Zanker is an Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at Durham University. Her principal interests are in late-Victorian literature, Comparative Literature and twenty-first century drama. Her journal publications include an article on intermediality in the Decadent performance of Anita Berber and an article for ^iFeminist Modernist Studies on war plays written by Mina Loy, Vernon Lee and Else Lasker-Schüler. After finishing her doctorate at Oxford, she was employed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she started research on her current project investigating the impact of feminist literary theories on contemporary Anglophone drama.

Katharina Herold-Zanker's Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920: 'The Indispensable East' is a groundbreaking, indispensable book. ..Herold-Zanker's book is of great significance. Studies of European decadence will from this point on have to accommodate its findings and respond to its arguments.

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Note on Translations Introduction. Perfect and Poisonous Dependencies: Orientalism and Decadence 1: ‘Away to Egypt’: Oscar Wilde and Orientalist Objectification 2: ‘Against Civilisation’: Arthur Symons and Violet Fane’s Fictions of Constantinople 3: ‘Feeling Oriental’: Embodied Orients in Decadent Writing by Paul Scheerbart and Else Lasker-Schüler 4: ‘Ex septentrione lux’: Stefan George’s Cosmopolitan Empire and Aesthetic Fascism Conclusion: ‘The Indispensable East’ Bibliography Index

Katharina Herold-Zanker is an Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at Durham University. Her principal interests are in late-Victorian literature, Comparative Literature and twenty-first century drama. Her journal publications include an article on intermediality in the Decadent performance of Anita Berber and an article for ^iFeminist Modernist Studies on war plays written by Mina Loy, Vernon Lee and Else Lasker-Schüler. After finishing her doctorate at Oxford, she was employed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she started research on her current project investigating the impact of feminist literary theories on contemporary Anglophone drama.

Katharina Herold-Zanker's Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920: 'The Indispensable East' is a groundbreaking, indispensable book. ..Herold-Zanker's book is of great significance. Studies of European decadence will from this point on have to accommodate its findings and respond to its arguments.

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Note on Translations Introduction. Perfect and Poisonous Dependencies: Orientalism and Decadence 1: ‘Away to Egypt’: Oscar Wilde and Orientalist Objectification 2: ‘Against Civilisation’: Arthur Symons and Violet Fane’s Fictions of Constantinople 3: ‘Feeling Oriental’: Embodied Orients in Decadent Writing by Paul Scheerbart and Else Lasker-Schüler 4: ‘Ex septentrione lux’: Stefan George’s Cosmopolitan Empire and Aesthetic Fascism Conclusion: ‘The Indispensable East’ Bibliography Index