The fin-de-siecle world / / edited by Michael Saler.
"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 uphe...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Worlds |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge worlds.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1698 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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