Decadents

The movement of those called Æsthetes (as satirised in _Patience_) and the movement of those afterwards called Decadents (satirised in Mr. Street's delightful _Autobiography of a Boy_) had the same captain; or at any rate the same bandmaster.

The Victorian Age in Literature 1905

The Daily Chronicle derided it as “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Decadents—a gloating study of mental and physical corruption.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

The Daily Chronicle derided it as “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Decadents—a gloating study of mental and physical corruption.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

The Daily Chronicle derided it as “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Decadents—a gloating study of mental and physical corruption.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

New Weird has a visceral, in-the-moment quality that often uses elements of surreal or transgressive horror for its tone, style, and effects — in combination with the stimulus of influence from New Wave writers or their proxies including also such forebears as Mervyn Peake and the French/English Decadents.

The New Weird Anthology – Notes and Introduction 2009

Doubtless there was an element of cultural snobbery in my initial preference for things Gallic: their Romantics seemed more romantic than ours, their Decadents more decadent, their Moderns more modern.

Literacy News – 235th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

New Weird has a visceral, in-the-moment quality that often uses elements of surreal or transgressive horror for its tone, style, and effects - in combination with the stimulus of influence from New Wave writers or their proxies (including also such forebears as Mervyn Peake and the French/English Decadents).

Boing Boing 2007

The Daily Chronicle derided it as “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Decadents—a gloating study of mental and physical corruption.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

The Daily Chronicle derided it as “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Decadents—a gloating study of mental and physical corruption.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

This movement backed by two of its own influences, Mervyn Peake and the Decadents of the late 1800s provided what might be thought of as the brain of New Weird.

The New Weird Anthology – Notes and Introduction 2009