Volume 8, Issue 2 (Winter 2025)
The Decadent Fairy Tale

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Preface by the Editor-in-Chief

Jane Desmarais

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The Decadent Fairy Tale: An Introduction by the Guest Editors

Eleanor Keane and James Dowthwaite

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CRITICAL


Anachronistic Decadence in an Antique Nineteenth-Century ‘Fairy Tale’: Walter Pater and Errol Le Cain’s Cupid and Psyche

Lina Vekeman

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Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales: The Aesthetically and Socially Engaged Child

Katie Nunnery

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Under the Hill as Decadent Fairy Tale: Aubrey Beardsley’s Disinterest in Being Earnest

Til Hutchinson

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Unhappily Ever After: Surface, Queer Bachelorhood, and Occidental Desire in Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s ‘The Siren’s Lament’

Di Cotofan Wu

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‘Strangely at Home in Fairyland’: The Faun in Laurence Housman’s Garden

Samuel Love

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Fear and Trembling: O. V. de L. Milosz’ ‘La Reine des serpents’

Ian T. Gwin

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‘[I]n the midst of fierce forces’: Neo-Decadence in AS Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

Roslyn Joy Irving

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Tortured Men: Octave Mirbeau’s Le Jardin des supplices

Signe Gammelgaard

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CREATIVE

La Serre

Clare Cunningham

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‘Charming’

Julia Biggs

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‘Oscar, Nightingale, Rose’

Margaret D. Stez

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Carl Einstein’s Leda as a Literary Fairy Tale about Decadence: Commentary, Translation and Original Text

Frank Krause

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Georges Eekhoud’s Escal-Vigor (1899): A New Translation

Mathew Rickard

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Chapter 1 of Rachilde’s The Underbelly (1904): A Translation with a Foreword by Melanie C. Hawthorne

Karen Vergne

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BADS ESSAY PRIZE WINNER 2025


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BADS TRANSLATION PRIZE WINNER 2025


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REVIEWS

Review of The Vegan Tigress (2025), directed by Tracy Collier

Eleanor Keane

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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

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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man, ed. by Matthew Creasy (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2025)

Graham Price

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Notes on Contributors 


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