The fin-de-siecle world / / edited by Michael Saler.

• Superior document: Routledge Worlds
• TeilnehmendeR: Saler, Michael T., 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge worlds.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1698 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siecle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siecle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the 'New Liberalism', and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siecle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siecle period"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of maps; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I: OVERVIEWS; 1 Global literatures of Decadence; 2 The city and urban life; 3 The second industrial revolution; 4 The modernity of the fin de siècle; 5 Changing concepts and experiences of time and space; PART II: PLACES; 6 France; 7 Britain; 8 Central Europe; 9 Russia; 10 Italy; 11 Spain; 12 The United States; 13 Canada; 14 Latin America; 15 Did China have a fin de siècle?; 16 Japan; 17 The Middle East; 18 India; 19 Africa; PART III: POLITICS IN A NEW KEY

20 The new nationalism21 The New Imperialism; 22 The New Politics of 'Higher Individualism'; PART IV: MASS CULTURE; 23 Publishing; 24 Transports of speed; 25 Consumer culture and advertising; PART V: DISCIPLINES; 26 The universities and the human sciences; 27 Philosophy; 28 The "new physics"; 29 Biology and eugenics; 30 Psychology and psychiatry; 31 Medicine; PART VI: SELFHOOD; 32 Gender and sexuality; 33 Race and ethnicity; PART VII: RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY; 34 Secularism/atheism/agnosticism; 35 The Jewish fin de siècle; 36 Christianity; 37 Islam; 38 2444 AN: Buddhism

39 New Age fin de sièclePART VIII: AESTHETICS; 40 Music and the Gesamtkunstwerk; 41 The visual arts; 42 The cinema; 43 Scientific romance, fantasy and the supernatural; 44 Children's literature; 45 Realism; Index