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Fin de Sicle/Fin du Globe

Fears and Fantasies of the Late Nineteenth Century

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. John Stokes

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Part of the book series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities (WSEH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • John Stokes
    Pages 1-13

  3. Writing Beyond the End

    • John Goode
    Pages 14-36

  4. Fitness and the Fin de Siècle

    • William Greenslade
    Pages 37-51

  5. Hopkins and Symons: Two Views of the City

    • John Lucas
    Pages 52-68

  6. The Apocalyptic Fables of H. G. Wells

    • Elaine Showalter
    Pages 69-84

  7. Heart of Darkness: Geography as Apocalypse

    • Patrick Parrinder
    Pages 85-101

  8. New Time: Mignon and her Meanings

    • Carolyn Steedman
    Pages 102-116

  9. Freud’s’ secret Agent’ and the Fin du Corps

    • Jan B. Gordon
    Pages 117-138

  10. Vernon Lee: Decadent Woman?

    • Ruth Robbins
    Pages 139-161

  11. Mahler / Strauss / Nietzsche

    • Rowland Cotterill
    Pages 162-177

  12. Decadent Parodies: Aubrey Beardsley’s Caricature of Meaning

    • Chris Snodgrass
    Pages 178-209

  13. Literary Radicalism in the British Fin de Siècle

    • Ian Small
    Pages 210-219

  14. Whose Spirit is This? Some Questions about Beginnings and Endings

    • J. Edward Chamberlin
    Pages 220-239

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 240-248
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The internationally distinguished scholars who have contributed to this timely book were asked to take part in a collaborative act of demystification: a reconsideration of the eschatological ideas of the last fin de sicle, the 1890s, in the light of the critical thought of the 1990s. Their essays draw upon a range of approaches, and are broadly interdisciplinary. All are characterised by the realisation that, with a century's hindsight, the late 1800s should be seen not so much as a period of decadence as of discovery and growth.

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  • University of Warwick, UK

    John Stokes

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