Decadence and Symbolism:

A Showcase Anthology

Edited by Brian Stableford

Collecting together eighty-six different pieces of prose from sixty-one authors, Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology, is the most broad-ranging anthology of its kind.

Surveying the movements from their beginnings onward, the volume brings together texts from well-known exponents such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as numerous lesser-known authors, many of whose work is being made available in English for the first time.

Editor and translator Brian Stableford provides an in-depth introductory essay, as well as brief biographies of the various personalities presented.

Some of the authors included are: Théophile Gautier, Auguste Villiers de l’Isle Adam, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Remy de Gourmont, Jean Lorrain, Marcel Schwob, May Armand Blanc, Renée Vivien, Alfred Jarry, Jane de La Vaudère, and Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt.

Click to see (pdf) Contents in Decadence and Symbolism

About the Author
Brian Stableford has been publishing fiction and non-fiction for fifty years. His fiction includes an eighteen-volume series of “tales of the biotech revolution” and a series of half a dozen metaphysical fantasies set in Paris in the 1840s, featuring Edgar Poe’s Auguste Dupin. His most recent non-fiction projects are New Atlantis: A Narrative History of British Scientific Romance (Wildside Press, 2016) and The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French roman scientifique (Black Coat Press, 2016); in association with the latter he has translated approximately a hundred and fifty volumes of texts not previously available in English, similarly issued by Black Coat Press.

Paperback, 442 pages. Release date: May 14, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-94381-358-2
Price: US$30.00