Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle
Subtitle: Popular Fiction and British Culture
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521032926
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory
First sentence: In the romances of the fin de siecle we have tended to see a literature of anxiety symptomatic of some more general cultural crisis.