In the following essay, Banks provides a survey of Huysmans's fiction written during his Naturalist, Decadent, and Catholic phases.

In the following essay, Kahn examines the aesthetic and psychological principles underlying Huysmans's art criticism.

In the following essay, Lloyd discusses Huysmans's works in the context of French literary trends of the late nineteenth century, particularly Naturalism and Decadence.

In the following excerpt, Knapp discusses Joris-Karl Huysmans' controversial novel Against the Grain, suggesting that des Esseintes's self-imposed exile attests to his being deprived of love in childhood, resulting in his present inability to love.

In the following essay, Felski considers depictions of gender roles in novels by Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, and Leopoldvon Sacher-Masoch.

In the following essay, Mossman argues that the neur tic personality of the central character of Against the Grain reveals elements of Huysmans's own psyche that eventually led to his religious conversion to Catholicism.

In the following essay, Leach uses three ofHuysmans's novels to illustrate aspects of the psychological theories of Heinz Kohut, contrasting these with traditional Freudian psychoanalysis.

In the following essay, Jones and Kingsley focus on Huysmans's descriptions in Against the Grain of paintings by Gustave Moreau in which the biblical figure of Salome is depicted as the epitome of Decadence.

In the following excerpt, Paglia views Huysmans, Charles Baudelaire, and Théophile Gautier as the three principal French authors whose works defined characteristically Decadent ideals of eroticism and physical beauty.