Cultural Politics At The Fin De Siècle

Author : Sally Ledger,Scott McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521484995

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Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle by Sally Ledger,Scott McCracken Pdf

Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account.

Author : Richard D. Sonn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783789149

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Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siecle France by Richard D. Sonn Pdf

Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307814517

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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna by Carl E. Schorske Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

Author : William Greenslade,Terence Rodgers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061208032

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Grant Allen by William Greenslade,Terence Rodgers Pdf

A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. A central literary figure at the fin de siècle, Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victorian period, including feminism and the 'new woman', Darwinism and evolution, the politics of popular fiction, environmentalism, and aesthetics. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle revisits the richly variegated profile of one of the most intriguing and significant polymaths of the turn of the century, recognizing his contribution to and influence on the key modernizing debates of the period.

Author : Richard David Sonn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 089324175X

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Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France by Richard David Sonn Pdf

Author : Leela Gandhi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822337150

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Affective Communities by Leela Gandhi Pdf

DIVInvestigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography./div

Author : Sally Ledger,Senior Lecturer in English Sally Ledger,Roger Luckhurst,Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198742784

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The Fin de Siècle by Sally Ledger,Senior Lecturer in English Sally Ledger,Roger Luckhurst,Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Roger Luckhurst Pdf

The fin-de-si�cle period--roughly the years 1880 to 1900--was characterized by great cultural and political ambivalence, an anxiety for things lost, and a longing for the new. It also included an outpouring of intellectual responses to the conflicting times from such eminent writers as T. H. Huxley, Emma Goldman, William James, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. In this important anthology, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students, scholars, and general readers a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-si�cle 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 that carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0719040930

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The New Woman by Sally Ledger Pdf

By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woman Question" at the end of the century. Chapters on imperialism, socialism, sexual decadence, and metropolitan life situate the "revolting daughters" of the Victorian age in a broader cultural context than previous studies.

Author : Debora L. Silverman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520913288

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Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France by Debora L. Silverman Pdf

Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book Award Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors, specific to late 19th century France, that interacted in the development of art nouveau.

Author : Suzanne Marchand,David Lindenfeld
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807129798

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Germany at the Fin de Siècle by Suzanne Marchand,David Lindenfeld Pdf

The phrase fin de siècle conjures up images of artistic experimentation and political decadence. The contributors to this volume argue that Wilhelmine Germany—best known for its industrial and military muscle—also shared these traits. Their essays look back to the years between 1885 and 1914 to find in Germany a mixture of sociopolitical malaise and experimental exhilaration that was similar in many ways to the better-known cases of France and Austria. Revising the view that the German Second Reich was merely a precursor to the Third, this broad-scoped study presents pre–World War I Germany in its own fascinating and often contradictory terms. The foundations of the antiliberal passions that would plague the Weimar Republic are evident, but Wilhelmine society also had a lighter, more playful and moderate spirit, one that was largely extinguished by the Great War. Blending social, cultural, and intellectual history, the contributors—a distinguished cross-section of older and younger scholars—trace changing German views on liberalism, penal reform, race, women, art, popular culture, and technology. They juxtapose better-known figures such as Max Weber, Thomas Mann, and Martin Heidegger with now-forgotten individuals like the Jewish feminist novelist Grete Meisel-Hess and the iconoclastic Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin. Their essay topics range from the esoteric and erotic poetry of Stefan George to the Jewish comedy of the Herrnfeld Theater. “Modernity” is examined from the perspectives of bourgeois cinema-goers and judicial reformers, as well as from the viewpoint of Carl Jung. The result is a variegated picture of an unsettled world, rich in its innovations, ambitious in its undertakings, and often apocalyptic in its dreams.

Author : Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801440254

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Provincial Modernity by Jennifer Jenkins Pdf

Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.

Author : Michael Saler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317604815

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The Fin-de-Siècle World by Michael Saler Pdf

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.

Author : Terence Rodgers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351932233

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Grant Allen by Terence Rodgers Pdf

A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his The Woman Who Did (1895), which gained fame and notoriety almost overnight through its exploration of female independence and sexuality outside marriage, precipitating rabid denunciations of the ’new woman.’ Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victorian period that extended beyond gender politics, however; equally important was his sustained intervention in debates about Darwinism, Spencerism, and evolution, on which subjects he was recognized as an authority and as the foremost popularizer alongside T. H. Huxley and Benjamin Kidd. Not only did Allen’s work link the literary and the scientific, it traversed the boundaries between elite and popular culture, demonstrating their interconnectedness. This was notable in his travel and environmental writings and in his experiments in orientalist and detective fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. The contributors to this collection approach the figure of Allen from diverse fields within Victorian studies, showing him to be a late-Victorian innovator but also an example of fin-de-siècle modernity. Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle revisits the richly variegated profile of one of the most intriguing and significant polymaths of the turn of the century, recognizing his contribution to and influence on the key modernizing debates of the period.

Author : S. Charnow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137054586

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Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris by S. Charnow Pdf

Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians. They focus on the emergence of the modern theatre as change generated from within bourgeois literary drama but ignore theatre as a complex social practice. Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris investigates the dynamic relationships among the avant-garde, official culture and the commercial sphere, arguing against the neat divide of 'high' and 'low' culture by showing how cultural forms of varying social origins influenced each other.

Author : Bálint Varga
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333149

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The Monumental Nation by Bálint Varga Pdf

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which—far from cultivating national pride—provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author Bálint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.