The Fin de Siecle
Subtitle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900
Contributors: Sally Ledger (Editor); Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 16, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780198742791
First sentence: From the beginning of the 1880's, the end-of-century experience generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future of civilization and of the human race itself.