Volume 1, Issue 2 (Winter 2018)
Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
The Devil in the Detail: An Introduction to Decadent Occultism from the Editors
Alice Condé and Jessica Gossling
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CRITICAL
‘Vers le sabbat’: Occult Initiation and Non-Normative Masculinity in Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Phocas
Mathew Rickard
The Poison of Literature: On the Social and Literary Construction of Baron Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen’s ‘Black Masses’ Scandal
Alexandre Burin
Textual Secrecy: Arthur Machen and ‘The True Literature of Occultism’
Sophie Mantrant
Occultism and the homme fatal in Robert Smythe Hichens’s Flames: A London Phantasy
Patricia Pulham
CREATIVE
Literary Decadence and the French Occult Revival: A Survey Essay with Two New Translations of Joséphin Péladan
Brian Stableford
REVIEWS
Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris, 1892–1897, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 30 June – 4 October 2017, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 28 October – 7 January 2018
Hieronymous La Plume
Transnational Poetics, Aestheticism, and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle, New York University, May 2018
Cherrie Kwok
Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 31 August 2018 – 6 January 2019
Adam Alston
Catherine Maxwell, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Sandra M. Leonard
Arthur Machen, Decadent and Occult Works, ed. by Dennis Denisoff (Cambridge: MHRA, 2018)
Nick Freeman
Robert Stilling, Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
Katharina Herold
