States of Decadence: On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 1

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Guri Barstad is a Professor of French Literature at the Østfold University College Norway having previously worked at the University of Tromsø Norway. Her publications include Mademoiselle de Maupin de Théophile Gautier. Arabesques et identités fluctuantes (2006) and articles in collections and journals such as Excavatio Romansk forum French Literature Series and Aiolos on Jean Lorrain Isabelle Eberhardt Gautier Rachilde and a number of Norwegian authors from the 1880s in addition to Jean Giono the subject of her doctoral thesis.Karen P. Knutsen is Professor of English Literature and TESOL at Østfold University College in Halden Norway. She specializes in contemporary English literature and has also worked within childrens and young adult literature in connection with teacher education. She is the author of Reciprocal Haunting: Pat Barkers Regeneration Trilogy (2010) and has co-edited a number of anthologies including Genre and Cultural Competence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Text (2010) and Narratives of Risk: Interdisciplinary Studies (2012).