Volume 7, Issue 1 (Autumn 2024)
Neo-Victorian Decadence
Guest Editors’ Introduction to Neo-Victorian Decadence: Questions, Trajectories, Paradigms
Marco Canani and Anna Enrichetta Soccio
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CRITICAL
Neo-Victorian Romanticism and Decadence: The Reconceptualization of Realism from John Henry Newman to James Stephens
Francesca Caraceni
‘The clouds are grand pianos’: Derek Mahon’s The Yellow Book and Neo-Victorian Decadence
Enrico Reggiani
‘A series of variations on a theme’: Reinvention and Amplification of Decadence in Jeremy Reed’s Dorian: A Sequel
Kostas Boyiopoulos
(Re)writing Wilde’s Last Years: From David Hare’s The Judas Kiss to Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince
Pierpaolo Martino
Aesthetic Revenants and the Neo-Decadent Afterlife of Vernon Lee
Sally Blackburn-Daniels
Variations of Decadence: Reflections on Julian Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat
Ivan Callus
Hanging out with ‘Archival Al’: Decadent Community in Neo-Victorian Comics
Matthew Creasy
Neo-Victorian Adaptations through the Media: The Representation of the Gothic New Woman in Penny Dreadful
Anja Meyer
CREATIVE
REVIEWS
Sarah Green, Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence, Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Aaron Eames
Adam Alston, Staging Decadence: Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism (London: Bloomsbury, 2023)
Julia Skelly
