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
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
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
