The fin-de-si�cle period--roughly the years 1880 to 1900--was characterized by great cultural and political ambivalence, an anxiety for things lost, and a longing for the new. It also included an outpouring of intellectual responses to the conflicting times from such eminent writers as T. H. Huxley, Emma Goldman, William James, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. In this important anthology, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students, scholars, and general readers a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-si�cle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology, and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes that carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.
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"All the essays....are....informative and lucidly written."--English Literature in Translation 1880-1920
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Sally Ledger is Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London
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One of the best Fin de Siecle anthologies around,
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This review is from: The Fin de Siï¿1/2cle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 (Paperback)
Fin de siecle is one of those fascinating topics in literary and cultural studies. However, it is, just like postmodernism, a very hard concept to precise. Ledger and Luckhurst help to solve this problem thanks to a complete selection of texts that represent 13 cultural phenomena of the time. Probably the text would require some accompanying texts if the reader is not familiar with the topic, but it offers to the more especialized reader a very complete reference to those texts that are fundamental to understand the time but do not appear on the literary canons. A must for anyone interested in the end of the nineteenth century.
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From the beginning of the 1880's, the end-of-century experience generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future of civilization and of the human race itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Oscar Wilde, Max Nordau, Torres Straits, William Morris, Arthur Symons, Olive Schreiner, South Africa, East End, Herbert Spencer, Karl Pearson, Pall Mall Gazette, Havelock Ellis, William James, Andrew Lang, George Bernard Shaw, Socialist League, West Africa, Average Opinion, Boer War, General Gordon, Sarah Grand, Edward Carpenter, Great Britain, Sigmund Freud, Cecil Rhodes New!
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From the beginning of the 1880's, the end-of-century experience generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future of civilization and of the human race itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychological crowd, maiden tribute, decadent movement, subliminal consciousness, scientific naturalism, hysterical phenomena, psychical research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oscar Wilde, Max Nordau, Torres Straits, William Morris, Arthur Symons, Olive Schreiner, South Africa, East End, Herbert Spencer, Karl Pearson, Pall Mall Gazette, Havelock Ellis, William James, Andrew Lang, George Bernard Shaw, Socialist League, West Africa, Average Opinion, Boer War, General Gordon, Sarah Grand, Edward Carpenter, Great Britain, Sigmund Freud, Cecil Rhodes New!
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- Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Elaine Showalter on 4 pages
- The Soul Of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde on 4 pages
- Evolution And Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley on page 222, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Sanity of Art (Collected Works of Bernard Shaw) by Bernard Shaw in Front Matter, page 20, and Back Matter
- In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth on page 26, page 45, and Back Matter
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