Volume 8, Issue 2 (Winter 2025)
The Decadent Fairy Tale
The Decadent Fairy Tale: An Introduction by the Guest Editors
Eleanor Keane and James Dowthwaite
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CRITICAL
‘[I]n the midst of fierce forces’: Reading A. S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (1994) as Orientalized Decadence
Roslyn Joy Irving
Anachronistic Decadence in an Antique Nineteenth-Century ‘Fairy Tale’: Walter Pater and Errol Le Cain’s Cupid and Psyche
Lina Vekeman
Unhappily Ever After: Surface, Queer Bachelorhood, and Occidental Desire in Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s ‘The Siren’s Lament’
Di Cotofan Wu
Aubrey Beardsley’s The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser as a Decadent Fairy Tale
T. N. Hutchinson
CREATIVE
Carl Einstein’s ‘Leda’ as a Literary Fairy Tale about Decadence: Commentary, Translation and Original Text
Frank Krause
BADS ESSAY PRIZE WINNER 2025
The Peculiar Case of the Jewelled Tortoise, or: Thoughts Towards a Jewellery of the Decadent Woman
Lea Felicitas Döding
BADS TRANSLATION PRIZE WINNER 2025
REVIEWS
Chris Foss, The Importance of Being Different: Disability in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales, Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
Aaron Eames
George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man, ed. by Matthew Creasy (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2025)
Graham Price
