Volume 6, Issue 2 (Autumn/Winter 2023)
Decadence and Fashion
Decadence and Aestheticism through Fashion and Textiles: Guest Editors’ Introduction
Robyne Calvert and Veronica Isaac
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CRITICAL
Some Americans in the ‘House Beautiful’: Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Aestheticism
Ailsa Boyd
Fibres, Folds, and Trimmings: The Decadent Materials of Sarah Grand’s Emotional Moments
Stefanie John
Layers of Clothing in Hjalmar Söderberg’s Writing: Translations of ‘The Fur Coat’ (1898) and ‘A Grey Waistcoat or Justice in Munich’ (1913) with an Introduction
Laura Alice Chapot
Rag Time: Decadent Textiles in the Louisiana Gothic of the Fin de Siècle
Ryan Atticus Doherty
Finishing Touches: Clothing and Accessories as Tokens of Evil in Rachilde and Barbey d’Aurevilly
Elise Bouley
CREATIVE
BADS ESSAY PRIZE WINNER 2023
‘Oh, London dear!’: Belated Decadence and the Queer City in Ronald Firbank’s Vainglory and Caprice
Lucinda Janson
BADS TRANSLATION PRIZE WINNER
Park Young-hee, ‘A Ward Woven with Moonlight’ (1923): A Translation with an Overview of Korean Decadence
Di Cotofan Wu
REVIEWS
Decadence, Now, Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta, 11-31 May 2023
Lara Camilleri
Kristin Mahoney, Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Stefano Evangelista
Alphonse Mucha, Le Pater. Le Grand Œuvre d’Alphonse Mucha, ed. by Tomoko Sato (Paris: Éditions RMN, 2023)
Sam Kunkel