Books By Kate Hext, Alex Murray - Author

Kate Hext is Associate Professor in Decadent Literature and the Arts at the University of Exeter and Visiting Professor of English at Ewha Womans University. Her published work includes Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (2024) and a new edition of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (2025). She is a founding co-editor of the journal Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures. Alex Murray is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen's University Belfast and founding co-editor of Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press). His most recent books include Decadent Conservatism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past (Oxford University Press, 2023) and the collection Decadence: A Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2022).