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"The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures -- such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses -- of decadence and decay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Guy, Josephine M., 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Edinburgh companions to literature.
Temas:
1800-1999
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Literature.
English literature
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Josephine M. Guy
  • Part I. Concepts. 1. Decadence and institutions of modernism in the American literary field of the 1910s and 1920s / Kirsten MacLeod
  • 2. The matter of form: fin-de-siècle illustrated poetry and the periodical press / Alison Chapman
  • 3. Curious ontricacies: some versions of city writing at the fien de siècle / Nick Freeman
  • 4. Gothic aesthetics / Andrew Smith
  • 5. Catholicism and the fin de siècle / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
  • 6. Secularism and secularisation at the fin de siècle / Sara Lyons
  • 7. The claims of kinship: humanitarian ideals at the century's end / John Stokes
  • 8. Information in the 1890s: technological, journalistic, imperial, occult / Richard Menke
  • Part II. Places. 9. Fin-de-Siècle Scotland / Caroline McCracken-Flesher
  • The Irish fin de siècle / Anne Markey
  • Providing an ideal home: paternalism and persuasion at Bournville, 1895-1914 / Margaret Ponsonby
  • 12. Theatre in the provinces at the fin de siècle: beyond outcast London / Jo Robinson
  • 12. 'Truth about Russia': Russia in Britain at the fin de siècle / Anna Vaninskaya
  • 14. Aestheticism in Italy: a new sense of place / Stefano Evangelista
  • Part III. Identities: female. 15. The 1890's woman / Jad Adams
  • 16. When a bestselling author and a West End actress made a spiritualist performance: collaboration, networks and theatre at the fin de siècle / Catherine Hindson
  • 17. Intergenerational collaboration and conflict: women's periodicals at the fin de siècle / Alexis Easley
  • 18. Lily Montagu and liberal Judaism / Richa Dwor
  • 19. American nervousness: motherhood and 'the mental activity of women' in the era of sexual anarchy / Emily Coit
  • Part IV. Identities: male. 20. German and British sexual sciences across disciplines at the fin de siècle: 'homosexuals', 'inverts' and 'uranians' / Ina Linge
  • 21. The Anglo-African adventure novel in the 1890s / Gerald Monsman
  • 22. The fin-de-siècle detectives: 'but my job don't end there' / Caroline Reitz.

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