Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859–1920 - Brossura

Gagnier, Regenia

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ISBN 10: 1349319953 ISBN 13: 9781349319954

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Riassunto

Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.

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Informazioni sull?autore

REGENIA GAGNIER has held chairs at Stanford University, USA, and the University of Exeter, UK, where she is currently Professor of English and Director of Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute. She has also taught at Berkeley and Oxford. Her previous books include Idylls of the Marketplace, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 and The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society. She is also Editor in Chief of Literature Compass and Director of its Global Circulation Project and President of the British Association for Victorian Studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1349319953
• ISBN 13: 9781349319954
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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