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Fin de Siècle, The: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900


Fin de Siècle, The: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900

Paperback by Ledger, Sally (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London); Luckhurst, Roger (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London)

Fin de Siècle, The: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900

£46.99

ISBN:
9780198742791
Publication Date:
5 Oct 2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
400 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 14 - 19 May 2024
Fin de Siècle, The: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900

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-siècle 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.

Contents

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

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