Split Ends? Literature and Politics at the Fin De Siecle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12410938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jock Macleod (0000-0002-0145-2725, Griffith University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 697-709 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150307051728 |
| OpenAlex | W2061575566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
AS AN UNDERGRADUATE IN THE 1970s, my introduction to the 1890s was perfunctory. Squeezed into a couple of weeks in the middle of a year-long course on “Victorian and Modern Literature,” the literature of the decade was reduced to aestheticism and decadence and presented as something of a preliminary to the real business of modernism. Such a focus reflected the scholarship of the time, in which the fin de siècle was constructed as a moment of transition, one in which the political and socio-ethical dimensions so central to high Victorian literature were evacuated, as arguments for the autonomy of art came to dominate the literary cultural landscape. The organising principle was one of bifurcation: the separating out of avant garde from bourgeois culture, the high from the low and, of particular relevance to this essay, literature from politics
Aestheticism · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Autonomy · Bourgeoisie · Cultural politics · Decadence · Fin de siecle · Literature · Modernism (music · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |