
Individualism, Decadence and Globalization
On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920
Regenia Gagnier(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 9. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 219 pages
978-1-349-31995-4 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.
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'...knowledgeable and wide-ranging...' - Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
VIII, 219 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-31995-4 (9781349319954)
DOI
10.1057/9780230277540
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Person
REGENIA GAGNIER has held chairs at Stanford University, USA, and the University of Exeter, UK, where she is currently Professor of English and Director of Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute. She has also taught at Berkeley and Oxford. Her previous books include
Idylls of the Marketplace
,
Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920
and
The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society.
She is also Editor in Chief of
Literature Compass
and Director of its Global Circulation Project and President of the British Association for Victorian Studies.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation The Ironies of Western Individualism New Women, Female Aesthetes and Socialist Individualists: The Literature of Separateness and Solubility Decadent Interiority and the Will The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy Good Europeans and Neo-Liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian Cosmopolitanism and Beyond Appendix: Interiority, Exteriority, and Mystical Substitution: The Case of J.K. Huysmans Notes Index