The Decadent Bestiary
$37.79
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2025
Summary
From the Golden Fly to the Wounded Lion, animal tales of decadence, mystery, and the uncanny.
An 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917674041 |
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| ISBN-10: | 191767404X |
| Author: | Sam Kunkel, Jessica Gossling |
| Publisher: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Imprint: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Sam Kunkel
Sam Kunkel is a French translator and scholar of nineteenth-century religious literature. He has translated and introduced Echoes of a Natural World by Gustave Kahn (2020) and A Beam of Sunlight in the Deep Forest- Mystical Prose Works of Édouard Schuré (2021).
Jessica 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.
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