Goldsmiths, University of London
24 March 2023
Richard Hoggart Building, Room 137
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Keynote Speaker: Dr Alessandro Cabiati (Ca鈥 Foscari University of Venice)
Keynote Paper: 'Marvellous Abnormalities: Fairy Tales, Decadence, and Deviance in the Late Nineteenth Century'
Decadent writers and artists repeatedly turned to the fairy tale tradition as a rich source of inspiration. They saw the fairy tale as an opportunity to showcase both its potential for subversion and their own skill at integrating adult, decadent elements within texts traditionally perceived as reserved for children. Writers such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Machen, Jean Lorrain (Paul Alexandre Martin Duval), Ren茅e Vivien (Pauline Mary Tarn), and Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery Vallette) transformed the fairy tale into a strikingly transgressive adult text with capacity to explore mystical, occult and esoteric spaces, reject social and literary conventionality, and embrace decadent individualism, queer desire and sexual dissidence.
Programme
9.30 Registration
10.00 Keynote
Alessandro Cabiati (Ca鈥 Foscari University of Venice and Brown University): 鈥楳arvellous Abnormalities: Fairy Tales, Decadence, and Deviance in the Late Nineteenth Century鈥
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Oscar Wilde, Olive Custance, and Jessie Marion King
Megan Williams (University of Surrey): 鈥樷淎n artist Slaying his own Soul鈥:鈥疧scar Wilde, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and l鈥檃ube de si猫cle radical culture鈥
Frankie Dytor (University of Cambridge): 鈥極live Custance and Fairy Tale Renaissance鈥
Michelle Reynolds (University of Exeter): 鈥楧ecadent New Women in Jessie Marion King鈥檚 Illustrated Edition of Oscar Wilde鈥檚 A House of Pomegranates鈥
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Decadence, the occult, and folklore
Damian Walsh (UCL): 鈥樷楳any secrets and many answers: the occult rituals of Wilde鈥檚 fairy tales鈥
James Dowthwaite (University of Jena): 鈥樷淣ous n鈥檃vons pu sortir du ch芒teau enchant茅鈥: The Use of the Barbe-bleu Story in Huysmans and Maeterlinck鈥
Naomi Fukuzawa (University of Bologna): 鈥楲afcadio Hearn鈥檚 Kwaidan as Japanese Decadent Folklore鈥
3.30 Tea
4.00 Walter Pater, Errol Le Cain, and B. Catling
Lina Vekeman (Ghent University): 鈥楧ecadent myths 鈥 decadent illustrations: Walter Pater and Errol Le Cain鈥檚 Cupid and Psyche鈥
Victor Rees (UCL): 鈥楢n Empire of Trees: B. Catling鈥檚 The Vorrh as 21st-century decadent fairy tale鈥
5.00 Drinks reception
Selected Recordings
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Conference Organisers
Eleanor Keane (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Jane Desmarais (Goldsmiths, University of London)