Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

This is a collection of thirty-six tales by writers from late nineteenth-century France, recasting classic French fairy tales, Arthurian legends, and English and German tales. The stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. The tales feature perverse settings and disillusioned perspectives, underlining themes such as the decline of civilization, the degeneration of magic and the unreal, gender confusion, and the industrial incursion.

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