The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900
by Sally Ledger, Roger Luckhurst
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Sally Ledger is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist in science fiction and the Gothic. His many books include The Angle between Two Walk: The Fiction of J.G. Ballard (1997) and Science Fiction: A Cultural History (2005). He has also edited several Oxford World's Classics, including H.G. show more Wells' The time Machine (2017). show less
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- Canonical title
- The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900
- Original publication date
- 2000
- Important events
- Fin de siècle
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- Nonfiction, History, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 941.081 — History & geography History of Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor Victoria 1837-1901
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- DA533 .F55 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485-
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