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A Reader in Cultural History, C.1880-1900
Roger Luckhurst, Sally Ledger
ISBN: 9780198742791
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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Dealing with the cultural history of the Fin de Siecle, this is an anthology of non-literary writings from 1880-1900. It includes sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, and Racial Science.
In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-siecle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes, which carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.
| ISBN | 0198742797 | | Pages | 388 | | ISBN13 | 9780198742791
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 604 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 05 Oct 2000 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | DA533.F53 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 809.8 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Introduction: Reading the 'Fin de Siecle' by Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst | | | | | | Editors' Note | | | | | | Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880) by Edwin Ray Lankester | | 3 | | | | 'Zoological Retrogression' (1891) by H. G. Wells | | 5 | | | | Degeneration (1895) by Max Nordau | | 13 | | | | Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau (1895) by Egmont Hake | | 17 | | | | Review of Degeneration by Max Nordau (1895) by William James | | 19 | | | | The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1895/1908) by George Bernard Shaw | | 20 | | | | The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor (1883) by Andrew Mearns | | 27 | | | | 'The maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon' (1885) by W. T. Stead | | 32 | | | | Life and Labour of the People of London (1889) by Charles Booth | | 39 | | | | In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) by William Booth | | 45 | | | | 'The Mind of Crowds' (1895) by Gustave Le Bon | | 55 | | | | 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' (1903) by Georg Simmel | | 61 | | | | 'At the Alhambra: Impressions and Sensations' (1896) by Arthur Symons | | 67 | | | | Why We Attacked the Empire (1895) | | 69 | | | | 'Marriage' (1888) by Mona Caird | | 77 | | | | 'Character Note: The New Woman' (1894) | | 80 | | | | 'Why Women are Ceasing to Marry' (1899) by Ella Hepworth Dixon | | 83 | | | | 'The New Aspect of the Woman Question' (1894) by Sarah Grand | | 88 | | | | 'The New Woman of Fiction and Fact' (1894) by M. Eastwood | | 90 | | | | 'An Appeal Against Female Suffrage' (1889) | | 92 | | | | 'The Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply' (1889) by Millicent Garrett Fawcett | | 94 | | | More... | | |
"All the essays....are....informative and lucidly written."--English Literature in Translation 1880-1920
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