Decadent Desires
Decadent Desires

Author: Alicia Clark

Publisher: ForbiddenFables Press

Published:

Total Pages: 1840

ISBN-13:

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Indulge in the forbidden world of Decadent Desires, where every page ignites the flames of your deepest sensuous passions. With an exquisite collection of 120 erotic stories, this tantalizing treasure trove will take you on a journey beyond your wildest imagination. Explore the uncharted territories of desire and uncover hidden fantasies that will leave you breathless and craving for more. Ignite the filthy heat within you as each story immerses you in a world where pleasure knows no boundaries. Let Decadent Desires be your guide to embracing alluring sensations and surrendering to the irresistible allure of seduction. Dive into this daring anthology boasting 120 arousing stories carefully crafted to enthrall even the most discerning connoisseurs. From steamy encounters between lovers yearning for forbidden ecstasy to clandestine rendezvous pulsating with uninhibited desire, these tales weave together an intoxicating tapestry that pushes boundaries and celebrates sensual liberation like never before.

Decadent Desires: A Karma Café Novella
Decadent Desires: A Karma Café Novella

Author: Tawny Weber

Publisher: Tawny Weber

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0990803163

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Bedtime Bliss is on the menu when a guy used to fighting dragons has to awaken a beauty of her own power, and the magic of sensual delights before the Valentine’s Ball. But can she accept the repercussions of magic and her duty to family? Or would it be easier to return to the sweet bliss of sleepy obliviousness where life is simple, love is a myth and magic is reserved for fairy tales?

Decadent Culture in the United States
Decadent Culture in the United States

Author: David Weir

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 079147917X

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Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence—the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe—was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture.

Decadence
Decadence

Author: Alex Murray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 1108658598

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Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.

Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism
Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism

Author: Martin Lockerd

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1350137669

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Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists. Linking the later writers with their literary predecessors, Martin Lockerd examines the shifts in representation of Catholic decadence in the works of W. B. Yeats through Ezra Pound to T.S. Eliot; the adoption and transformation of anti-Catholicism in Irish writers George Moore and James Joyce; the Catholic literary revival as portrayed in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; and the attraction to decadent Catholicism still felt by postmodernist writers D.B.C. Pierre and Alan Hollinghurst. Drawing on new archival research, this study revisits some of the central works of modernist literature and undermines existing myths of modernist newness and secularism to supplant them with a record of spiritual turmoil, metaphysical uncertainty, and a project of cultural subversion that paradoxically relied upon the institutional bulwark of European Christianity. Lockerd explores the aesthetic, sexual, and political implications of the relationship between decadent art and Catholicism as it found a new voice in the works of iconoclastic modernist writers.

A Baedeker of Decadence
A Baedeker of Decadence

Author: George C. Schoolfield

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0300047142

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During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

Karma Café Boxed Set
Karma Café Boxed Set

Author: Tawny Weber

Publisher: Tawny Weber

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 099080318X

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SUGAR AND SPICE, Book One Hot kisses, sexy shoes and a midnight rendezvous – the perfect recipe for Happy Ever After. Throw in a fairy godmother with personal agenda, a midnight deadline and a marriage-of-convenience and you have a hot and sassy twist on a modern day Cinderella story. For over a hundred years, the Karmanski women have been cooking up delicious treats, and a little magic. But now their business, Karma Café, is in trouble and each of the Karmanskis has a different opinion on how to save their livelihood. The matriarch, Odette, is old-school, and more than ready to rely on magic. Natalia is sure if she can just marry her daughter off to a wealthy suitor, all their problems will be solved, and she has just the suitor in mind-the gorgeous CEO of Chastain Shoes. Anja’s just as determined to foil her mother’s plans and stay single. She cooks up a scheme to serve up the perfect match for this prince of a guy. With the aid of a little magical help, she’s going to put a Happy Ever After twist on her mother’s matchmaking. Administrative Assistant, Dedra Hanson has three addictions. Gorgeous shoes, yummy treats and her sexy boss. Her credit card balance and bathroom scale do a pretty good job of keeping the first two addictions in check. And the third? Love of her job has always kept her from acting on her passion for Paul Chastain. But now that she’s leaving her job because her playboy CEO boss is about to become engaged to a chilly socialite to save his business, Paul Chastain is fair game. All she needs for one wild fantasy night? The nerve to seduce her boss, and a little bit of magic. The only question left is, can she leave when the clock strikes midnight? SWEET NOTHING, Book Two What's a girl determined to get rid of her reputation as being pure as driven snow to do? Find a prince of a guy to help her out, of course. Bianca White was sick and tired of being as sweet as sugar and pure as snow. What she wanted was a hot, wild affair with a guy who could make her forget all her inhibitions. And she found the perfect candidate in visiting hottie, Jacob Carlisle. Now she just has to figure out how to seduce him. After an eight-year search, attorney Jacob Carlisle is sure he’s found the runaway heir to the White fortune. As soon as he confirms her identity, he’s determined to bring Bianca White back to Chicago to face her greedy stepmother. He just has to ignore his overwhelming attraction for her and keep his hands off her sexy little body. Can Bianca and Jacob both get what they want? DECADENT DESIRES, Book Three Bedtime Bliss is on the menu when a guy used to fighting dragons has to awaken a beauty of her own power, and the magic of sensual delights before the Valentine’s Ball. But can she accept the repercussions of magic and her duty to family? Or would it be easier to return to the sweet bliss of sleepy obliviousness where life is simple, love is a myth and magic is reserved for fairy tales?

Decadence of the French Nietzsche
Decadence of the French Nietzsche

Author: James Brusseau

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780739118085

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In Decadence of the French Nietzsche author James Brusseau describes how and why French Nietzscheanism is contorting into decadence where philosophy is dedicated to the intensification of thought and the degradation of stolid truth.

The Decadent Reader
The Decadent Reader

Author: Asti Hustvedt

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 1104

ISBN-13:

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A collection of stories and novels from fin-de-si cle France that celebrate decline, decay, and deviance.In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-si cle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted diseases, gender confusion, moral depravity, alcoholism, and tobacco and drug use were topics of popular discussion then as now.The Decadent Reader is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-si cle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in perversity. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy, and the deviant, the decadent writers attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived to be the chief enemy of art. Barbey d'Aurevilly, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Guy de Maupassant, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Catulle Mend s, Rachilde, Jean Mor as, Octave Mirbeau, Jos phin P ladan, and Remy de Gourmont looted the riches of their culture for their own purposes. In an age of medicine, they borrowed its occult mysteries rather than its positivism. From its social Darwinism, they found their monsters: sadists, murderers, transvestites, fetishists, prostitutes, nymphomaniacs, and hysterics. And they reveled in them, completely upending the conventions of romance and sentimentality. The Decadent Reader, which includes critical essays on all of the authors, many novels and stories that have never before appeared in English, and familiar works set in a new context, offers a compelling portrait of fin-de-si cle France.