"This lucid and compelling collection of essays ranges from the late nineteenth century to high modernism, exploring manifestations of decadence in work from both sides of the Atlantic. Decadence in the Age of Modernism presents a whole that is more than the sum of its parts, as the best collections do. It reveals decadence as a multifariously generative force whose energies fed both the center and the margins of modernism, and which lived on as a style and as a dynamic process long after it was considered over as a movement. A significant statement in a growing field, this book will be an important point of reference for many scholars."