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The Fin de Siecle Sally Ledger (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London)

The Fin de Siecle By Sally Ledger (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London)

Summary

Dealing with the cultural history of the Fin de Siecle, this is an anthology of non-literary writings from 1880-1900. It includes sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, and Racial Science.

The Fin de Siecle Summary

The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London)

In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-siecle 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 which carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.

The Fin de Siecle Reviews

All the essays....are....informative and lucidly written. * English Literature in Translation 1880-1920 *

About Sally Ledger (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London)

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

Table of Contents

EDITORS' NOTE; ONE: DEGENERATION; TWO: OUTCAST LONDON; THREE: THE METROPOLIS; FOUR: THE NEW WOMAN; FIVE: LITERARY DEBATES; SIX: THE NEW IMPERIALISM; THE FORWARD POLICY; REPORTAGE; CRITIQUE; SEVEN: SOCIALISM; EIGHT: ANARCHISM; NINE: SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM; TEN: PSYCHOLOGY; ELEVEN: PSYCHICAL RESEARCH; TWELVE: SEXOLOGY; THIRTEEN: ANTHROPOLOGY AND RACIAL SCIENCE

Additional information

GOR001397473
9780198742791
0198742797
The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London)
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Oxford University Press
2000-10-05
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