"a rebours" was massively influential to the revival of printing in late 19th c england. it was the book that wilde was clutching when the pigs busted in to take him to reading gaol. his copy had a yellow cloth binding, which at the time was synonymous with beardsley and "the yellow book". when it was reported that wilde had a yellow book, the rumor started that it was "the yellow book." much like beardsley, the publisher of the yb, john lane, despised wilde. that however didn't prevent beardsely from getting the sack; he was too closely associated with wilde and with "queer" sensibility. beardlsey was thrown into poverty, only to be rescued by  a high-class pornographer, leonard smithers. but smithers and his circle were truly dissolute and beardsley ended up very dead at a very young age. wilde, as it turns out, wasn't the most original of writers: his depiction of dorian grey is essentially a retread of des essientes.

of interest to you might be the fascinating but thoroughly repugnant, "degeneration" (eng trans. 1890) by max nordau. and of course the work of raymond roussel.