Richard A. Kaye

Bio

Richard A. Kaye is Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College and in the Ph. D. Program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. He is completing a book-length study of the figure of St. Sebastian in the arts entitled Voluptuous Immobility: St. Sebastian and the Decadent Imagination. A volume of essays on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that he has edited will be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Since 2017 he has been the editor of The D. H. Lawrence Review.

Contributions

Decadence in the Age of Modernism. Edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray

From the Print Journal

This collection brings new attention to modernism’s self-repression—and the repression by critics—of its origins in fin-de-siècle decadent poetics. Examining a tantalizing range of Anglo-American writers, the contributors variously make a case for decadent writing as entwined with modernist achievements. Running through the volume, too, is an emphasis on the ways in which decadent literature determined a queer poetics that stood astride modernism in the writing of familiar writers such as Djuna Barnes, Ronald Firbank, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, Mina Loy, H.D., Hart Crane, and Carl Van Vechten as well as lesser-known figures such as Margaret Sackville, Ada Leverson, Bruce Nugent, and Donald Evans.