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Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914
- Title
- Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914 / Nicholas Daly.
- Author
- Daly, Nicholas.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR878.P68 D35 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 220 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In Modernism, Romance and the fin de siecle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914, Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on recent work in cultural studies, this book shows how the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Popular literature > Great Britain > History and criticism
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Literature and anthropology > Great Britain > History
- Adventure stories, English > History and criticism
- Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain
- Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
- Culture in literature
- Adventure stories, English
- English fiction
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Literature and anthropology
- Modernism (Literature)
- Popular literature
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Triviale literatuur
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Incorporated bodies: Dracula and professionalism -- The imperial treasure hunt: The snake's pass and the limits of romance -- 'Mummie is become merchandise': the mummy story as commodity theory -- Across the great divide: modernism, popular fiction and the primitive -- Afterword: the long goodbye.
- ISBN
- 0521641039
- 9780521641036
- LCCN
- 98055153
- OCLC
- ocm40543251
- 40543251
- SCSB-1033977
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library