Fin de siècle/fin du globe
Subtitle: fears and fantasies of the late nineteenth century
By: edited by John Stokes.
Contributors: Stokes, John, 1943-
Series: Warwick studies in the European humanities
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.; End of the world in literature.; Arts, Modern -- 19th century.; Fantasy in literature.; Fear in literature.; End of the world.
Description: "When centuries end, terminal myths begin to accrue, creating an ominous mood of fin de siecle/fin du globe. A superstitious belief that history is measured by the calendar comes into play."--BOOK JACKET. "The twelve internationally distinguished scholars who have contributed to this timely book were asked to take part in a collaborative act of demystification: a reconsideration of the eschatological ideas of the last fin de siecle, the notorious 1890s, in the light of the critical thought of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET. "Their essays draw upon a range of contemporary approaches, Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and deconstructionist, and are broadly interdisciplinary. Major writers are set in context, among them Conrad, Morris, Wells, and Wilde. The ideas of Freud and Nietzsche are held up to scrutiny. Developments in music, mathematics and the fine arts are re-examined."--BOOK JACKET. "All the essays are characterized by a high degree of intellectual commitment, and by an emerging realization that, with a century's hindsight, the late 1800s should be seen not so much as a period of decadent decline as of discovery, growth, and healthy disturbance in unexpected places."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Writing beyond the end / John Goode; title: Fitness and the fin de siècle / William Greenslade; title: Hopkins and Symons : two views of the city / John Lucas; title: The apocalyptic fables of H.G. Wells / Elaine Showalter; title: Heart of darkness : geography as apocalypse / Patrick Parrinder; title: New time : Mignon and her meanings / Carolyn Steedman; title: Freud's 'secret agent' and the fin du corps / Jan B. Gordon; title: Vernon Lee : decadent woman? / Ruth Robbins; title: Mahler, Strauss, Nietzsche / Rowland Cotterill; title: Decadent parodies : Aubrey Beardsley's caricature of meaning / Chris Snodgrass; title: Literary radicalism in the British fin de siècle / Ian Small; title: Whose spirit is this? : some questions about beginnings and endings / J.E. Chamberlin.