Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle
Subtitle: Popular Fiction and British Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521641036
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; History and criticism; English Novel And Short Story; Literature And Society; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 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; 19th century; 20th century; English fiction; Great Britain; Popular literature
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.