Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. His main research specialisms are fin-de-siècle Decadence and Aestheticism, and Anglo-Continental literary transactions. He is a co-editor of The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and the essay collection Decadent Romanticism (Ashgate, 2015). He has published a number of articles on late Victorian and Modernist topics.

• Series Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense: Aestheticism to Decadence; Part One: OSCAR WILDE; 2. ‘That love-enraptured tune’: Eros and Art(ifice); 3. ‘Charmides’ and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d’Art; Part Two: ARTHUR SYMONS; 4. Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions; 5. Bianca’s Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh; Part Three: ERNEST DOWSON; 6. ‘A Little While’: Expiration in Suspension; 7. Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-encounter; 8. Coda: Modernist Responses; Bibliography; Index

Kostas Boyiopoulos’s study of three poets of the English Decadence offers a lively, illuminating exploration of the strangely textualised fetishisms at work in their verse. Valuably attentive to grammar and verse-form, this account of Wilde, Symons and Dowson captures the defining irresolutions and paradoxes of Decadent poetry.

Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. His main research specialisms are fin-de-siècle Decadence and Aestheticism, and Anglo-Continental literary transactions. He is a co-editor of The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and the essay collection Decadent Romanticism (Ashgate, 2015). He has published a number of articles on late Victorian and Modernist topics.

• Series Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense: Aestheticism to Decadence; Part One: OSCAR WILDE; 2. ‘That love-enraptured tune’: Eros and Art(ifice); 3. ‘Charmides’ and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d’Art; Part Two: ARTHUR SYMONS; 4. Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions; 5. Bianca’s Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh; Part Three: ERNEST DOWSON; 6. ‘A Little While’: Expiration in Suspension; 7. Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-encounter; 8. Coda: Modernist Responses; Bibliography; Index

Kostas Boyiopoulos’s study of three poets of the English Decadence offers a lively, illuminating exploration of the strangely textualised fetishisms at work in their verse. Valuably attentive to grammar and verse-form, this account of Wilde, Symons and Dowson captures the defining irresolutions and paradoxes of Decadent poetry.

Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. His main research specialisms are fin-de-siècle Decadence and Aestheticism, and Anglo-Continental literary transactions. He is a co-editor of The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and the essay collection Decadent Romanticism (Ashgate, 2015). He has published a number of articles on late Victorian and Modernist topics.

• Series Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense: Aestheticism to Decadence; Part One: OSCAR WILDE; 2. ‘That love-enraptured tune’: Eros and Art(ifice); 3. ‘Charmides’ and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d’Art; Part Two: ARTHUR SYMONS; 4. Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions; 5. Bianca’s Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh; Part Three: ERNEST DOWSON; 6. ‘A Little While’: Expiration in Suspension; 7. Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-encounter; 8. Coda: Modernist Responses; Bibliography; Index

Kostas Boyiopoulos’s study of three poets of the English Decadence offers a lively, illuminating exploration of the strangely textualised fetishisms at work in their verse. Valuably attentive to grammar and verse-form, this account of Wilde, Symons and Dowson captures the defining irresolutions and paradoxes of Decadent poetry.