At the turn of the nineteenth century, just like today, many people were terrified -- or thrilled -- by the seemingly unstoppable progress of science, wrestling with questions of sexual identity, and turning away from traditional religions or taking refuge in spiritualism, the paranormal, and "new age" philosophies. This selection of more than 120 writings from the four decades around 1900 brings together newspaper clippings, poetry, pulp fiction, scientific polemic, and sexological speculation, alongside classic texts by Conan Doyle, Stevenson, Wells, Dickens, Ibsen, Ruskin, and Zola. Vividly illuminating both the similarities and the differences between millennial and fin-de-siecle anxieties, this dazzling anthology forces us to look again at the progress we have made (or failed to make) in the last hundred years.
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Mike Jay is the author of Blue Tide: The Search for Soma.
Michael Neve is a historian at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.
Michael Neve is a historian at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.
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Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Sir Isaac, East End, The Arrival of the Deviant, Lethal Chamber, Nikola Tesla, Rumours of Total War, Black Short Nose, Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library, Daily Telegraph, Major Colquhoun, Imagining the Next Century, Lady Harman, Love's Coming of Age, Mlle Smith, Richard Arnold New!
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Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
artificial factor, sexual inversion, exciting causes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Sir Isaac, East End, The Arrival of the Deviant, Lethal Chamber, Nikola Tesla, Rumours of Total War, Black Short Nose, Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library, Daily Telegraph, Major Colquhoun, Imagining the Next Century, Lady Harman, Love's Coming of Age, Mlle Smith, Richard Arnold New!
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- The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells on page 71, and page 90
- Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel by Jules Verne on page 322, and Back Matter
- War of the Worlds( in German) by Wells on page 71, and page 90
- PRINZHORN:ARTISTRY MENTALLY, ILL by Hans Prinzhorn on page 164, and Back Matter
- The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells on page 71, and page 90
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