The next meeting of the BADS book group will be on 17 May 2024 at 18.00-19.00 (GMT). We apologize for any inconvenience caused by a scheduling mishap which prevented our March and April meetings from occurring, and we have pushed back the Machen reading to May as a result.
The 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!
Our next session will be on Arthur Machen's The Hill of Dreams (1907), known as ‘the most decadent book in all of English literature’ (Cazamian, 1923). Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths) will be offering a short introduction to the text to start off the meeting.
If you have any questions, ideas, or concerns, please contact our Student Member, Conner Moore.
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Meeting Schedule
17 November 2023, 18:00 GMT – Algernon Charles Swinburne, Lesbia Brandon
15 December 2023, 18:00 GMT – Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘Anactoria’, ‘Dolores’, ‘The Leper’, ‘Hermaphroditus’, and ‘Faustine’
19 January 2024, 18:00 GMT – Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal
16 February 2024, 18:00 GMT – Oscar Wilde, Salomé
17 May 2024, 18:00 GMT – Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams