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Review: Gregory Mackie, Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Get PDFOne hand at his hip, the other touching the side of a knowing smile, a Beardsleyan portrait of a confident Oscar Wilde graces the cover of Gregory Mackie’s book. Like the many representations of Wilde that Mackie details within, the portrait is a counterfeit. In his study of Wilde’s earliest biographers, impersonators, forgers, and mediums, Mackie explores various efforts at appropriating and re-forging Wilde’s legacy.  
Preface from the Editor-in-Chief
No full textThe publication of this issue of Volupté is momentous in various ways. Not only does it position cinema as a prime site for engaging with decadence and establish ‘deciné’ (the editors’ shorthand for this site) as a fruitful comparative research area bringing together scholars of literature, cultural, and film history, but this is the first issue not to be based, either in whole or in part, on conference papers. Volupté is taking proper root. Since we launched in June 2018, our digital footfall has substantially increased, our pages viewed by visitors from 23 countries, and rising
Olive Custance, Nostalgia, and Decadent Conservatism
Get PDFOlive Custance was one of the most prolific women poets published in The Yellow Book, with poems appearing in eight of its thirteen volumes. She is also mentioned in several studies of the fin de siècle; as her 1972 bibliographer Nancy J. Hawkey states: ‘her name is invariably included in contemporary lists of representative poets’ of the 1890s. For example, in 1925, Richard Le Gallienne fondly recalled her ‘flower-like girlish loveliness’ at John Lane’s teas and includes her in a list of prominent ‘minor poets’ of the period. In The Eighteen Nineties (1913), Holbrook Jackson groups her among ‘those poets who give expression to moods more attuned to end-of-the-century emotions’. This fosters the impression that Custance did not continue writing beyond the fin de siècle. Modern critics perpetuate this notion, observing her apparent poetic silence following her final volume, The Inn of Dreams (1911), which itself consisted largely of reprints from The Blue Bird (1905). However, Custance in fact continued publishing long after 1911, producing work throughout the 1920s, 30s and 40s, until her death in 1944. In this article, I will consider why her later work has been overlooked, contextualizing her position in the twentieth century. This investigation provokes challenging questions about how we might address the disquieting political uses to which Decadent poetry may be put.
 
Chapter I of The Black Siren (1908) by Emilia Pardo Bazán: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes
Get PDFCountess Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was one of the most influential and controversial Spanish writers and literary critics of the nineteenth century. The only female writer mentioned by Arthur Symons in his ‘Decadent Movement in Literature’ (1893), she is primarily known for introducing French Naturalism into Spanish literature at a moment when Naturalism was seen as little less than a sin
Geert van Uythoven, The Secret Expedition: the Anglo–Russian Invasion of North Holland, 1799
Get PDFGeert van Uythoven, The Secret Expedition: the Anglo–Russian Invasion of North Holland, 1799. Warwick: Helion and Company, 2018. 448pp. ISBN 978-1-912390-20-5 (hardback). Price £29.99
\u27He would not meddle against Newark…\u27 Cromwell’s strategic vision 1643-1644
Get PDFCromwell with some justification is identified with East Anglia and this is often true of his early military career. However, his earliest campaigns were often focused on the area west of the Eastern Association counties and in particular they centred on the royalist garrison at Newark. This heavily defended town dominated several important communications arteries which Cromwell saw capturing the town as crucial to winning the war, at least in the region. Cromwell’s ruthless pursuit of his goal led him to criticize and even attack his superiors who did not see things his way. This article explores Cromwell’s developing strategic sense in the initial two years of the first civil war
When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles
Get PDFThe Northern Irish Troubles (1969-1998) have been the focus of many cross-disciplinary literature and official and unofficial storytelling projects. When reviewing the accounts produced by these studies and initiatives it is visible that less focus has been paid to the everyday experiences of the Troubles, particularly to a young girl’s perspective of them
‘Everything in war is very simple...’ The Great War French tank regulations and their implementation
Get PDFThis article examines how the French army developed its tank doctrine during the Great War. How that doctrine came to be formulated and how it worked in practice will be discussed, as will the obstacles to devising such doctrine in the context of continuous and large-scale operations on the Western Front from 1916 to the end of the war. The three French tank designs, the Schneider, the St Chamond (both medium tanks) and the Renault light tank had to be tested and developed in the field, as was the doctrine used to employ them. As will be shown, despite developing sound tank doctrine on a tactical and operational level reasonably quickly, the French army would then discover that good doctrine was only part of the equation leading to military effectiveness, illustrating Clausewitz’s dictum that ‘everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult’
Curating Art Therapy: A conversation
Get PDFThis article is based on several conversations between the authors – David Edwards and Barrie Damarell – prior to and following the exhibition – ‘A personal history of Art Therapy in less than 100 objects’ – held at Gallery 35, Chapel Walk, Sheffield between Monday September 10th to Saturday September 15th, 2018. The authors discuss the rationale for the exhibition, together with the process of curating it.
Keywords: Art, Art Therapy, Exhibition, History, Objects, Retiremen