
The Fin de Siecle
A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900
Oxford University Press
Published on 5. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-19-874279-1 (ISBN)
Description
In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-siecle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes which carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.
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All the essays....are....informative and lucidly written. * English Literature in Translation 1880-1920 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
607 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-874279-1 (9780198742791)
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Persons
Sally Ledger is Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Editor
Senior Lecturer in EnglishSenior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Lecturer in EnglishLecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Content
EDITORS' NOTE; ONE: DEGENERATION; TWO: OUTCAST LONDON; THREE: THE METROPOLIS; FOUR: THE NEW WOMAN; FIVE: LITERARY DEBATES; SIX: THE NEW IMPERIALISM; THE FORWARD POLICY; REPORTAGE; CRITIQUE; SEVEN: SOCIALISM; EIGHT: ANARCHISM; NINE: SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM; TEN: PSYCHOLOGY; ELEVEN: PSYCHICAL RESEARCH; TWELVE: SEXOLOGY; THIRTEEN: ANTHROPOLOGY AND RACIAL SCIENCE