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13 – Call for papers
Fin du Globe: Decadence, Catastrophe, Late Style
Please consider submitting an abstract for an upcoming conference
on Victorian Decadence (Fin du Globe: Decadence, Catastrophe,
Late Style) to be held at Cornell in September 2020. Details below.
Call for Papers: Abstracts by March 1, 2020
The 3rd Annual Conference of the
British Association of Decadence Studies
and the journal VOLUPTÉ
and the Aestheticism and Decadence Network
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2020
Conference Committee: Ellis Hanson, Elisha Cohn, Jane Desmarais,
Kate Hext, Caroline Levine, Kristin Mahoney, Alex Murray
"I wish it were fin du globe," said Dorian with a sigh. "Life is a
great disappointment."
"Ah, my dear," cried Lady Narborough, putting on her gloves,
"don't tell me that you have exhausted life. When a man says that
one knows that life has exhausted
him . . . .”
--- Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
When Dorian Gray heaved a French sigh over not merely the fin de
siècle, but also the end of the planet, could he truly imagine it or the
way his own culture was already causing it?
When Baudelaire
describes his readers' laying waste to the world with an opiated yawn,
how do we take up now his invitation to recognize ourselves in this
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