About the author:
Helen Craske is a Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Merton College, Oxford. Her research focuses on French literary, media, and visual culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since completing a doctorate in 2021, she has started a second major research project: ‘Saucy French Magazines, c. 1880–1914’. Her first book, Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature (forthcoming with OUP), analyses how notions of shared crime and guilt structured the production and perception of literature in fin-de-siècle France. She has published articles on Decadent writers and periodical culture in French Studies, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Dix-Neuf.