The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

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ID23776397
EditorsGail Marshall
Year2007
Publication date2007-08-02
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol9780521850636
OpenAlexW629009722
ISBN9780521850636
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history.

Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cultural politics · Epistemology · Fin de siecle · Literature · Modernism (music) · Morality · Period (music) · Politics · Situated · French Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy

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