The Fin De Sičcle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198742797 ISBN 13: 9780198742791

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000

Riassunto

The fin-de-sičcle 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-sičcle 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.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

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

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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198742797
• ISBN 13: 9780198742791
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Redattore: Ledger Sally
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk; ; Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street; Dublin; D02 YH68; Irlanda