The Cambridge companion to the fin de siècle / / edited by Gail Marshall [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/008
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Art and literature; Decadence (Literary movement); Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization 19th century; Europe Civilization 19th century
• Persona (resp. second.): MarshallGail <1965->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Psychology at the fin de siècle / Jenny Bourne Taylor -- Decadence and aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sexual identity at the fin de siècle / Richard A. Kaye -- Socialism and radicalism / William Greenslade -- Empire / Ross G. Forman -- Publishing industries and practices / Margaret D. Stetz -- The visual arts / Shearer West -- The new woman and feminist fictions / Sally Ledger -- Realism / Stephen Arata -- The fantastic fiction of the fin de siècle / Nicholas Ruddick -- Varieties of performance at the turn of the century / John Stokes -- Poetry / Marion Thain.
• Sommario/riassunto: Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cambridge companion to the fin de siècle
• ISBN: 1-107-48139-2; 1-107-48628-9; 1-139-00156-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201145703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to literature.