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Contributor to
Decadence & Danger;
The Fin De Siecle

Critics and commentators are drawn increasingly to re-evaluate the defining fin de siecle, that of the last century. This volume of inter-disciplinary essays plays its part in that process. Contemporary readings of the 1880s and 1890s are as much readings of the 1990s: hence the dual focus of Decadence and Danger.

The contributors to this volume address the culture and history of the 1890s and 1990s from a variety of perspectives. Their discussions cover themes such as masculinity and empire, sexuality and gender, postmodern decadence, the New Woman and the relationship between literary decadence and modernism.

The contributors explore a wide range of writers, from Oscar Wilde, H Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, Bram Stoker, HG Wells, Joseph Conrad, Violet Fane and Henry Havelock Ellis through to Marge Piercy, Bret Easton Ellis, Anne Rice and Quentin Tarentino.