"The Idiots" in "The Savoy": Decadence and the Celtic Fringe

Yet Beardsley's illustrations and prose, the frequent presence of Continental decadents in translation, and poems by Ernest Dowson and Symons all tend against the "nothing decadent" claim; furthermore, a series of feminist-leaning stories could well be termed revolutionary5—by the end of the nineteenth century, the word decadent was used to condemn realist fiction and New Women writing.[...]he will gain no cultural capital from publication in any magazine, and it makes no difference where the story appears.Because he does not enter intentionally into an exchange, he can consider himself as deaf to the blandishments of the manyheaded monster and to the sound of tinkling shillings.[...]the whole issue is bookended by Celtic Europe, and the story and the essay come into conversation.