{"product_id":"the-decadent-bestiary-isbn-9781917674041","title":"The Decadent Bestiary","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Golden Fly to the Wounded Lion, animal tales of decadence, mystery, and the uncanny.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn original collection of animal stories and poems from fin-de-siècle England and France, selected, translated, and introduced by Jessica Gossling and Sam Kunkel. Bringing together works by forty writers including Michael Field, Remy de Gourmont, Lafcadio Hearn, J. K. Huysmans, Rachilde, and Eric Count Stenbock, this timely anthology explores the inexorable connection between human and animal, from the lion to the ant. Bringing together tales both familiar and largely unknown, some of them translated into English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Decadent Bestiary\u003c\/i\u003e opens a new chapter in the complex story of our relationship with the natural world, showcasing the beasts of beauty and burden that recur in decadent and symbolist writing.\u003cb\u003eBeasts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Androcles’ Lion, Victor Hugo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Seal, Iwan Gilkin \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rat, Hector Chainaye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBats, Jules Renard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lady with the Wolf, Renée Vivien\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomestic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePierrot, Guy de Maupassant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith Dog and Dame: An October Idyll, Aleister Crowley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Greyhound, Iwan Gilkin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hound, H. P. Lovecraft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSredni Vashtar, Saki\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree cat poems from Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire, translated by Arthur Symons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Philosophy of Cats, Stanislas de Guaita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBirds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeacocks: A Mood, Olive Custance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem IX, Gustave Kahn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnnui, Maurice Maeterlinck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe White Peacock, William Sharp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Parrot, a Dark Tale, Catulle Mendès\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Owls, Charles Baudelaire, translated by Arthur Symons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSunset Wings, D. G. Rossetti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“L’Oiseau Bleu”: A Painting on Silk by Charles Conder, Max Beerbohm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ci\u003eWater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Egg of the Albatross, Eric Stenbock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBallad of the Bird-Bride, Rosamund Marriott Watson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpon the Threshold, Remy de Gourmont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Swan Killer, Villiers de L’Isle-Adam \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe virgin, vivacious, and lovely day at hand, Stéphane Mallarmé\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWild swans at Coole, W. B. Yeats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dream of Akinosuké, Lafcadio Hearn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Caterpillar, Jules Renard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaterpillars, E. F. Benson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo a Moth That Drinketh of the Ripe October, Emily Pfeiffer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dream of Wild Bees, Olive Schreiner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Golden Fly, Algernon Blackwood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Study of a Spider, John Byrne Leicester Warren\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArachne, Marcel Schwob\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFish \u0026amp; Herptiles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Berlin Aquarium, Joris-Karl Huysmans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Aquarium, Jules Laforgue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnake-charm, John Todhunter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dying Viper, Michael Field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo my Tortoise Chronos, Eugene Lee-Hamilton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Frog Killer, Rachilde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Friend to the Animals, Léon Bloy \u003cbr\u003eBibliographical and Story NotesSam Kunkel is a French translator and scholar of nineteenth-century religious literature. He has translated and introduced \u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e by Gustave Kahn (2020) and \u003ci\u003eA Beam of Sunlight in the Deep Forest: Mystical Prose Works of Édouard Schuré\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica Gossling is Lecturer in English and teaches Victorian literature, decadence, modernism, poetry, and literary theory. Her research is primarily focused on French and English literary decadence, spatial theory, and occulture. She is a member of the Decadence Research Centre and she completed her PhD on Decadent Threshold Poetics in 2018.","brand":"Strange Attractor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233652781285,"sku":"NP9781917674041","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781917674041.jpg?v=1767738969","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-decadent-bestiary-isbn-9781917674041","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}