01585nam a2200181Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200170007610000180009324500240011126000090013530000140014450010840015865000230124294200120126599900190127795201070129620250718142147.0250718s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780198742784  a941.081bLED  aLedger, Sally 4aThe Fin de Siècle  c2000  a388 pages  aThe 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.  aLiterary Criticism  cENGLISH  c576386d576386  00104070aACLbACLc7Bd2025-07-18l0o941.081 LEDp286729r2025-07-18 14:21:47w2025-07-18yENGLISH