The Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts /

The Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts / / Josephine M. Guy.

Explores the significance of the British fin de siècle in Scotland and Ireland, as well as some regional cities in EnglandThe 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—...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Guy, Josephine M.,
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Jad,
Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth,
Chapman, Alison,
Coit, Emily,
Dwor, Richa,
Easley, Alexis,
Evangelista, Stefano,
Freeman, Nick,
Guy, Josephine M.,
Linge, Ina,
Lyons, Sara,
MacLeod, Kirsten,
Markey, Anne,
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline,
Menke, Richard,
Monsman, Gerald,
Ponsonby, Margaret,
Reitz, Caroline,
Robinson, Jo,
Smith, Andrew,
Stokes, John,
Vaninskaya, Anna,
indso, Catherine,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 28 B/W illustrations 11 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. Concepts
  • 1 Decadence and Institutions of Modernism in the American Literary Field of the 1910s and 1920s
  • 2 The Matter of Form: Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Poetry and the Periodical Press
  • 3 Curious Intricacies: Some Versions of City Writing at the Fin de Siècle
  • 4 Gothic Aesthetics
  • 5 Catholicism and the Fin de Siècle
  • 6 Secularism and Secularisation at the Fin de Siècle
  • 7 The Claims of Kinship: Humanitarian Ideals at the Century’s End
  • 8 Information in the 1890s: Technological, Journalistic, Imperial, Occult
  • II. Places
  • 9 Fin-de-Siècle Scotland
  • 10 The Irish Fin de Siècle
  • 11 Providing an Ideal Home: Paternalism and Persuasion at Bournville 1895–1914
  • 12 Theatre in the Provinces at the Fin de Siècle: Beyond Outcast London
  • 13 ‘Truth About Russia’: Russia in Britain at the Fin de Siècle
  • 14 Aestheticism in Italy: A New Sense of Place
  • III. Identities: Female
  • 15 The 1890s Woman
  • 16 When a Bestselling Author and a West End Actress Made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle
  • 17 Intergenerational Collaboration and Conflict: Women’s Periodicals at the Fin de Siècle
  • 18 Lily Montagu and Liberal Judaism
  • 19 American Nervousness: Motherhood and ‘The Mental Activity of Women’ in the Era of Sexual Anarchy
  • IV. Identities: Male
  • 20 German and British Sexual Sciences Across Disciplines at the Fin de Siècle: ‘Homosexuals’, ‘Inverts’ and ‘Uranians’
  • 21 The Anglo-African Adventure Novel in the 1890s
  • 22 The Fin-de-Siècle Detective: ‘But My Job Don’t End There’
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Plates

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