Volume 9, Issue 1 (Summer 2026)
Estonian and Finnish Decadence

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Preface by the Editor-in-Chief

Jane Desmarais

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xxxxxx: An Introduction by the Guest Editors

Mirjam Hinrikus, Viola Parente-Čapková, Riikka Rossi, and Jaan Undusk

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CRITICAL


Spiritual Naturalism in A. H. Tammsaare’s Kõrboja peremees

Mirjam Hinrikus and Riikka Rossi 

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The Ambivalent and Multifaceted Figure of the Upstart in A. H. Tammsaare’s I Loved a German: In Search of the Right Interpretation of Life and Literature

Mirjam Hinrikus and Viola Parente-Čapková 

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Revolution and Decadence in the Poetic Universe of Gustav Suits

Hasso Krull 

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Finnish Journeys through Vitality and Depression: Uuno Eskola’s and Mikko Carlstedt’s Self-Images as Artists

Timo Huusko 

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The Poetics of Affect beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche’s Philosophy in the Prose Poetry of Jaan Oks

Leo Luks 

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Slave of a Harsh God: Nietzscheanism and the Nation in Joel Lehtonen’s Perm: Syysyön unelma 

Antti Ahmala 

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CREATIVE

Decadent Interart Aesthetics in Johannes Semper’s ‘Püha umbrohi’: An Introduction to the First Translation 

Merlin Kirikal 

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Johannes Semper’s ‘Püha umbrohi’: The First Translation

Adam Cullen

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Poems

Hasso Krull

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REVIEWS


L. Onerva, Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman, trans. by Eva Buchwald (Jewelled Tortoise, MHRA, 2025)

Tiina Ann Kirss

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Evanghelia Stead, Grotesque and Performance in the Art of Aubrey Beardsley (Cambridge, OBP, 2024)

Frankie Dytor

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Sarah Parker, Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own (Routledge, 2024)

Adrianna Paliyenko

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Notes on Contributors 


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