Decadence in the age of Modernism / edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dainty malice: Ada Leverson and post-Victorian decadent feminism / Kristin Mahoney -- The ugly things of Salome / Ellen Crowell -- Decadent paths and percolations after 1895 / Nick Freeman -- "A poetess of no mean order": Margaret Sackville, women's poetry, and the legacy of aestheticism / Joseph Bristow -- The queer drift of Firbank / Ellis Hanson -- Burning the candle at both ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay's decadence / Sarah Parker -- Woolf and Joyce, Barnes and Beckett: the legacy of decadence in major modernist novels / Vincent Sherry -- "The woodland whose depths and whose heights were Pan's": Swinburne and Lawrence, decadence and modernism / Howard J. Booth -- The naughtiness of the avant-garde: Donald Evans, Claire Marie, and Tender Buttons / Douglas Mao -- The queerness of being 1890 in 1922: Carl Van Vechten and the new decadence / Kirsten MacLeod -- A decadent dream deferred: the Harlem Renaissance's queer modernity / Michele Mendelssohn.

"This edited collection, of literary theory and criticism, proves that the Decadence movement had a longer-lasting influence on literature and aesthetics than has traditionally been accepted. Decadent principles and aesthetics continued to exert a compelling influence on the next generation of writers, from high Modernists (Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence) to late Decadents (Ronald Firbank and the Sitwells) to writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Bruce Nugent and Carl Van Vechten). This collection offers a multifaceted critical revision of how Modernism evolved out of, and coexisted with, the Decadent movement, which Modernism was often keen to discredit and supersede"-- Provided by publisher.