Fin de Sicle/Fin du Globe - Fears and Fantasies of the Late Nineteenth Century

The internationally distinguished scholars who have contributed to this timely book were asked to take part in a collaborative act of demystification: a reconsideration of the eschatological ideas of the last fin de sicle, the 1890s, in the light of the critical thought of the 1990s. Their essays draw upon a range of approaches, and are broadly interdisciplinary. All are characterised by the realisation that, with a century's hindsight, the late 1800s should be seen not so much as a period of decadence as of discovery and growth.

List of contents

List of Plates - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Writing Beyond the End; J.Goode - Fitness and the Fin de Si cle; W.Greenslade - Hopkins and Symons: Two Views of the City; J.Lucas - The Apocalyptic Fables of H.G. Wells; E.Showalter - Heart of Darkness: Geography as Apocalypse; P.Parrinder - New Time: Mignon and her Meanings; C.Steedman - Freud's 'Secret Agent' and the Fin du Corps; J.B.Gordon - Vernon Lee: Decadent Woman?; R.Robbins - Mahler/Strauss/Nietzsche; R.Cotterill - Aubrey Beardsley and the Caricature of Signification in the Fin de Si cle; C.Snodgrass - Literary Radicalism in the British Fin de Si cle; I.Small - Whose Spirit is This? Some Questions about Beginnings and Endings; J.E.Chamberlin - Index

Summary

The internationally distinguished scholars who have contributed to this timely book were asked to take part in a collaborative act of demystification: a reconsideration of the eschatological ideas of the last fin de sicle, the 1890s, in the light of the critical thought of the 1990s.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joh Stokes (Editor), John Stokes (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780333532683
• ISBN: 978-0-333-53268-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 19 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Illustrations: XI, 248 p.
• Series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities; Warwick Studies in the Europea; Warwick Studies in the European Humanities; Warwick Studies in the Europea
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)