Title: Cultural politics at the fin de siècle /
Authors: Ledger, Sally.; McCracken, Scott.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: English.; Literature, Modern; English literature History and criticism; Literature and society Great Britain History; Social problems in literature.; Psychoanalysis and literature.; Social Environment history.; Culture history.; Great Britain History; Great Britain Civilization
Contents: The flight to the real / Terry Eagleton -- The new woman and the crisis of Victorianism / Sally Ledger -- Empire, 'race' and feminism at the fin de siècle : the work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner / Laura Chrisman -- W.B. Yeats and Irish cultural politics in the 1980s / Stephen Regan -- The double lives of man : narration and identification in the late nineteenth-century representations of ec-centric masculinities / Ed Cohen -- Henry James and the spectacle of loss : psychoanalytic metaphysics / Marcia Ian -- 'A very curious construction' : masculinity and the poetry of A. E. Housman and Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins -- The pilgrims of hope : William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism / Anne Janowitz -- Urban utopias : socialism, religion and the city, 1880 to 1900 / Lynne Hapgood -- Vampires and the empire : fears and fictions of the 1890s / Alexandra Warwick -- Utopia, Limited : nationalism, empireand parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Williams --