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Cultural politics at the fin de siècle
- Title
- Cultural politics at the fin de siècle / edited by Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken.
- Publication
- Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR468.S6 C85 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 329 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Investigates the ways in which current conflicts of race, gender and class originated in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle.
- Subject
- 1800-1901
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Social problems in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Literature, Modern
- Social Environment > history
- Culture > history
- Civilization
- English literature
- Literature and society
- Letterkunde
- Maatschappij
- Politiek
- Culturele aspecten
- Sociale problemen
- Psychoanalyse
- Fin de siècle
- Literature and society > Great Britain > 19th century
- Problèmes sociaux en littérature
- Problèmes sociaux > Dans la littérature
- Psychanalyse et littérature
- Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
- Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
- Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901
- Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century
- English
- Great Britain
- Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 19e siècle
- Grande-Bretagne > 1837-1901 (Vic.)
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken -- The flight to the real / Terry Eagleton -- The new woman and the crisis of Victorianism / Sally Ledger -- Empire, 'race' and feminism at the fin de siècle : The work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner / Laura Chrisman -- W.B. Yeats and Irish cultural politics in the 1890's / Stephen Regan -- The double lives of man : narration and identification in late nineteenth-century representations of ec-centric masculinities / Ed Cohen -- Henry James and the spectacle of loss : psychoanalytic metaphysics / Marcia Ian -- 'A very curious construction' : masculinity and the poetry of A.E. Housman and Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins -- The pilgrims of hope : William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism / Anne Janowitz -- Urban utopias : socialism, religion and the city, 1880 to 1900 / Lynne Hapgood -- Vampires and the empire : fears and fictions of the 1890s / Alexandra Warwick -- Utopia, limited : nationalism, empire and parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Williams -- Technologies of monstrosity : Bram Stoker's Dracula / Judith Halberstam -- Postmodernism, a Chance to reread? / Scott McCracken -- Is market society the fin of history? / Regenia Gagnier.
- ISBN
- 0521443857
- 9780521443852
- 0521484995
- 9780521484992
- LCCN
- 94007064
- OCLC
- ocm29910050
- 29910050
- SCSB-14130911
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library