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Title The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts / edited by Josephine M. Guy.
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Copyright date ©2018


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Descript ix, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
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Contents Introduction / Josephine M. Guy -- Part I. Concepts. 1. Decadence and institutions of modernism in the American literary field of the 1910s and 1920s / Kirsten MacLeod -- 2. The matter of form: fin-de-siècle illustrated poetry and the periodical press / Alison Chapman -- 3. Curious ontricacies: some versions of city writing at the fien de siècle / Nick Freeman -- 4. Gothic aesthetics / Andrew Smith -- 5. Catholicism and the fin de siècle / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- 6. Secularism and secularisation at the fin de siècle / Sara Lyons -- 7. The claims of kinship: humanitarian ideals at the century's end / John Stokes -- 8. Information in the 1890s: technological, journalistic, imperial, occult / Richard Menke -- Part II. Places. 9. Fin-de-Siècle Scotland / Caroline McCracken-Flesher -- The Irish fin de siècle / Anne Markey -- Providing an ideal home: paternalism and persuasion at Bournville, 1895-1914 / Margaret Ponsonby -- 12. Theatre in the provinces at the fin de siècle: beyond outcast London / Jo Robinson -- 12. 'Truth about Russia': Russia in Britain at the fin de siècle / Anna Vaninskaya -- 14. Aestheticism in Italy: a new sense of place / Stefano Evangelista -- Part III. Identities: female. 15. The 1890's woman / Jad Adams -- 16. When a bestselling author and a West End actress made a spiritualist performance: collaboration, networks and theatre at the fin de siècle / Catherine Hindson -- 17. Intergenerational collaboration and conflict: women's periodicals at the fin de siècle / Alexis Easley -- 18. Lily Montagu and liberal Judaism / Richa Dwor -- 19. American nervousness: motherhood and 'the mental activity of women' in the era of sexual anarchy / Emily Coit -- Part IV. Identities: male. 20. German and British sexual sciences across disciplines at the fin de siècle: 'homosexuals', 'inverts' and 'uranians' / Ina Linge -- 21. The Anglo-African adventure novel in the 1890s / Gerald Monsman -- 22. The fin-de-siècle detectives: 'but my job don't end there' / Caroline Reitz.
ISBN 9781474408912 (hbk.)
1474408915 (hbk.)
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Series Edinburgh companions to literature
Edinburgh companions to literature.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Alt author Guy, Josephine M., 1963- editor.
Descript ix, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
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Contents Introduction / Josephine M. Guy -- Part I. Concepts. 1. Decadence and institutions of modernism in the American literary field of the 1910s and 1920s / Kirsten MacLeod -- 2. The matter of form: fin-de-siècle illustrated poetry and the periodical press / Alison Chapman -- 3. Curious ontricacies: some versions of city writing at the fien de siècle / Nick Freeman -- 4. Gothic aesthetics / Andrew Smith -- 5. Catholicism and the fin de siècle / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- 6. Secularism and secularisation at the fin de siècle / Sara Lyons -- 7. The claims of kinship: humanitarian ideals at the century's end / John Stokes -- 8. Information in the 1890s: technological, journalistic, imperial, occult / Richard Menke -- Part II. Places. 9. Fin-de-Siècle Scotland / Caroline McCracken-Flesher -- The Irish fin de siècle / Anne Markey -- Providing an ideal home: paternalism and persuasion at Bournville, 1895-1914 / Margaret Ponsonby -- 12. Theatre in the provinces at the fin de siècle: beyond outcast London / Jo Robinson -- 12. 'Truth about Russia': Russia in Britain at the fin de siècle / Anna Vaninskaya -- 14. Aestheticism in Italy: a new sense of place / Stefano Evangelista -- Part III. Identities: female. 15. The 1890's woman / Jad Adams -- 16. When a bestselling author and a West End actress made a spiritualist performance: collaboration, networks and theatre at the fin de siècle / Catherine Hindson -- 17. Intergenerational collaboration and conflict: women's periodicals at the fin de siècle / Alexis Easley -- 18. Lily Montagu and liberal Judaism / Richa Dwor -- 19. American nervousness: motherhood and 'the mental activity of women' in the era of sexual anarchy / Emily Coit -- Part IV. Identities: male. 20. German and British sexual sciences across disciplines at the fin de siècle: 'homosexuals', 'inverts' and 'uranians' / Ina Linge -- 21. The Anglo-African adventure novel in the 1890s / Gerald Monsman -- 22. The fin-de-siècle detectives: 'but my job don't end there' / Caroline Reitz.
ISBN 9781474408912 (hbk.)
1474408915 (hbk.)
Series Edinburgh companions to literature
Edinburgh companions to literature.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Alt author Guy, Josephine M., 1963- editor.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  PR 461 E2  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Descript ix, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
Content text txt
still image sti
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction / Josephine M. Guy -- Part I. Concepts. 1. Decadence and institutions of modernism in the American literary field of the 1910s and 1920s / Kirsten MacLeod -- 2. The matter of form: fin-de-siècle illustrated poetry and the periodical press / Alison Chapman -- 3. Curious ontricacies: some versions of city writing at the fien de siècle / Nick Freeman -- 4. Gothic aesthetics / Andrew Smith -- 5. Catholicism and the fin de siècle / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- 6. Secularism and secularisation at the fin de siècle / Sara Lyons -- 7. The claims of kinship: humanitarian ideals at the century's end / John Stokes -- 8. Information in the 1890s: technological, journalistic, imperial, occult / Richard Menke -- Part II. Places. 9. Fin-de-Siècle Scotland / Caroline McCracken-Flesher -- The Irish fin de siècle / Anne Markey -- Providing an ideal home: paternalism and persuasion at Bournville, 1895-1914 / Margaret Ponsonby -- 12. Theatre in the provinces at the fin de siècle: beyond outcast London / Jo Robinson -- 12. 'Truth about Russia': Russia in Britain at the fin de siècle / Anna Vaninskaya -- 14. Aestheticism in Italy: a new sense of place / Stefano Evangelista -- Part III. Identities: female. 15. The 1890's woman / Jad Adams -- 16. When a bestselling author and a West End actress made a spiritualist performance: collaboration, networks and theatre at the fin de siècle / Catherine Hindson -- 17. Intergenerational collaboration and conflict: women's periodicals at the fin de siècle / Alexis Easley -- 18. Lily Montagu and liberal Judaism / Richa Dwor -- 19. American nervousness: motherhood and 'the mental activity of women' in the era of sexual anarchy / Emily Coit -- Part IV. Identities: male. 20. German and British sexual sciences across disciplines at the fin de siècle: 'homosexuals', 'inverts' and 'uranians' / Ina Linge -- 21. The Anglo-African adventure novel in the 1890s / Gerald Monsman -- 22. The fin-de-siècle detectives: 'but my job don't end there' / Caroline Reitz.
Alt author Guy, Josephine M., 1963- editor.
ISBN 9781474408912 (hbk.)
1474408915 (hbk.)
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