The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198742797 ISBN 13: 9780198742791

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

The fin-de-siècle 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-siècle 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Sally Ledger is Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London

Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London

Review:

"All the essays....are....informative and lucidly written."--English Literature in Translation 1880-1920

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198742797
• ISBN 13: 9780198742791
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Ledger Sally, Luckhurst Roger