Fin de Sicle/Fin Du Globe

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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List of Plates - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Writing Beyond the End; J.Goode - Fitness and the Fin de Si cle; W.Greenslade - Hopkins and Symons: Two Views of the City; J.Lucas - The Apocalyptic Fables of H.G. Wells; E.Showalter - Heart of Darkness: Geography as Apocalypse; P.Parrinder - New Time: Mignon and her Meanings; C.Steedman - Freud's 'Secret Agent' and the Fin du Corps; J.B.Gordon - Vernon Lee: Decadent Woman?; R.Robbins - Mahler/Strauss/Nietzsche; R.Cotterill - Aubrey Beardsley and the Caricature of Signification in the Fin de Si cle; C.Snodgrass - Literary Radicalism in the British Fin de Si cle; I.Small - Whose Spirit is This? Some Questions about Beginnings and Endings; J.E.Chamberlin - Index