Title: Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle
First published: 1999
Description: "In Modernism, Romance and the fin de siecle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914, Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on recent work in cultural studies, this book shows how the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture."--Jacket.
Subjects: Adventure stories, English, Culture in literature, English Adventure stories, English fiction, Gothic revival (Literature), History, History and criticism, Literature and anthropology, Modernism (Literature), Popular literature, Literature and society, Love in literature
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: PR878.P68 D35 1999