Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): The Decadent Fairy Tale

Articles

• Preface by the Editor-in-Chief

  Jane Desmarais

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• The Decadent Fairy Tale: An Introduction by the Guest Editors

  Eleanor Keane, James Dowthwaite

  ii-xii

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• ‘[I]n the midst of fierce forces’: Orientalizing Decadence in A. S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (1994)

  Roslyn Joy Irving

  1-18

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

  Lina Vekeman

  19-36

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• Unhappily Ever After: Surface, Queer Bachelorhood, and Occidental Desire in Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s ‘The Siren’s Lament’ (1917)

  Di Cotofan Wu

  37-56

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

  Samuel Love

  57-83

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• Aubrey Beardsley’s The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser as a Decadent Fairy Tale

  T. N. Hutchinson

  84-97

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

  Katie Nunnery

  98-115

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• Fear and Trembling: Oscar V. de L. Miłosz’s ‘La Reine des Serpents’ (1930) as a Decadent Fairy Tale

  Ian T. Gwin

  116-133

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• La Serre

  Claire Cunningham

  134-144

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• Charming

  Julia Biggs

  145-146

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• Oscar, Nightingale, Rose

  Margaret D. Stetz

  147-149

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

  Frank Krause

  150-170

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• The Peculiar Case of the Jewelled Tortoise, or: Thoughts Towards a Jewellery of the Decadent Woman

  Lea Felicitas Döding

  171-191

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• Georges Eekhoud, Escal-Vigor (1899): A New Translation

  Mathew Rickard

  192-203

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• Review: The Vegan Tigress (2025), directed by Tracy Collier, Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham (18 February–1 March 2025)

  Eleanor Keane

  204-206

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• Review: 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

  207-211

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

  Graham Price

  212-217

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• Notes on Contributors

  Volupté Journal

  218-221

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• Full Issue Volupté 8.2: The Decadent Fairy Tale

  Volupté Journal

  i-221

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