Goldsmiths, Richard Hoggart Building, Room 137
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9.30 Registration
10.00 Keynote
- Alessandro Cabiati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Brown University): ‘Marvellous Abnormalities: Fairy Tales, Decadence, and Deviance in the Late Nineteenth Century’
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Oscar Wilde, Olive Custance, and Jessie Marion King
- Megan Williams (University of Surrey): ‘“An artist Slaying his own Soul’: Oscar Wilde, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and l’aube de siècle radical culture’
- Frankie Dytor (University of Cambridge): ‘Olive Custance and Fairy Tale Renaissance’
- Michelle Reynolds (University of Exeter): ‘Decadent New Women in Jessie Marion King’s Illustrated Edition of Oscar Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates’
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Decadence, the occult, and folklore
- Damian Walsh (UCL): ‘‘Many secrets and many answers: the occult rituals of Wilde’s fairy tales’
- James Dowthwaite (University of Jena): ‘“Nous n’avons pu sortir du château enchanté”: The Use of the Barbe-bleu Story in Huysmans and Maeterlinck’
- Naomi Fukuzawa (University of Bologna): ‘Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan as Japanese Decadent Folklore’
3.30 Tea
4.00 Walter Pater, Errol Le Cain, and B. Catling
- Lina Vekeman (Ghent University): ‘Decadent myths – decadent illustrations: Walter Pater and Errol Le Cain’s Cupid and Psyche’
- Victor Rees (UCL): ‘An Empire of Trees: B. Catling’s The Vorrh as 21st-century decadent fairy tale’
5.00 Drinks reception
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