Decadent Poetics

Joseph Bristow, University of California, USADennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UKWilliam Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKJason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UKAlex Murray, University of Exeter, UKMatthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UKAna Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK

• Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?; Meredith Martin 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain 4. 'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade 9. 'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell Select Bibliography Index