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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Josephine M Guy |
ISBN: | 9781474408912 1474408915 |
OCLC Number: | 1011147208 |
Description: | ix, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Edinburgh companions to literature. |
Other Titles: | Fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts |
Responsibility: | edited by Josephine M. Guy. |
Abstract:
The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siecle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.
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