num_pages: 248
description: British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a strong sense of decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle examines the ways in which perceptions of loss were cast into archetypal stories that sought to account for the culture's troubles and assuage its anxieties. By examining the work of a wide range of writers--from Kipling to Wilde, from Stevenson to Stoker--Stephen Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period.
language: English
title: Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire
titlecomplete: Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire
characters: Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 13
places: British Empire
publisher: Cambridge University Press