01465nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250718142147.0 250718s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780198742784 941.081 LED Ledger, Sally The Fin de Siècle 2000 388 pages The fin-de-si cle period--roughly the years 1880 to 1900--was characterized by great cultural and political ambivalence, an anxiety for things lost, and a longing for the new. It also included an outpouring of intellectual responses to the conflicting times from such eminent writers as T. H. Huxley, Emma Goldman, William James, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. In this important anthology, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students, scholars, and general readers a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-si cle 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 that carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape. Literary Criticism ENGLISH 576386 576386 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-07-18 0 941.081 LED 286729 2025-07-18 14:21:47 2025-07-18 ENGLISH