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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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