The BADS Book Group meets virtually to discuss a selected piece of decadent literature in an informal, collegial environment. Graduate students working in decadence may be particularly interested, but all are welcome!

2026 Meeting Schedule

3 March, 18:00 GMT: George Egerton, Keynotes (1893)

7 April, 18:00 GMT:M. P. Shiel, Above All Else (1943)

12 May, 18:00 GMT: Ella D’Arcy, Monochromes (1895)

2 June, 18:00 GMT:Arthur Machen, The Great Return (1915)

7 July, 18:00 GMT: John Gray, Silverpoints (1893)

8 September, 18:00 GMT: Richard Le Gallienne, The Romance of Zion Chapel (1898)

6 October, 18:00 GMT: Ernest Dowson, Dilemmas (1895)

If you have any questions, ideas, or concerns, please contact this year’s host, Daniel Bresland.

Daniel Bresland is a third-year PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast with interests in religion, poetics, and science in Victorian and modernist literature. His thesis title is ‘Decadent Protestantism: Faith, Authority and Aesthetics in fin-de-siècle Britain’.

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