Cultural Politics At The Fin De Siecle

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484992
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle written by Sally Ledger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account.

Author : Richard D. Sonn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783789149
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siecle France written by Richard D. Sonn and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814513
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fin-De-Siecle Vienna written by Carl E. Schorske and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

Author : Richard David Sonn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893241759
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France written by Richard David Sonn and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Debora L. Silverman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913280
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France written by Debora L. Silverman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book Award Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors, specific to late 19th century France, that interacted in the development of art nouveau.

Author : Leela Gandhi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337157
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affective Communities written by Leela Gandhi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVInvestigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography./div

Author : Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801440250
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provincial Modernity written by Jennifer Jenkins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.

Author : William Greenslade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant Allen written by William Greenslade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. A central literary figure at the fin de siècle, Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victorian period, including feminism and the 'new woman', Darwinism and evolution, the politics of popular fiction, environmentalism, and aesthetics. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle revisits the richly variegated profile of one of the most intriguing and significant polymaths of the turn of the century, recognizing his contribution to and influence on the key modernizing debates of the period.

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040931
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Woman written by Sally Ledger and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woman Question" at the end of the century. Chapters on imperialism, socialism, sexual decadence, and metropolitan life situate the "revolting daughters" of the Victorian age in a broader cultural context than previous studies.

Author : Suzanne Marchand
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807129791
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany at the Fin de Siècle written by Suzanne Marchand and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase fin de siècle conjures up images of artistic experimentation and political decadence. The contributors to this volume argue that Wilhelmine Germany—best known for its industrial and military muscle—also shared these traits. Their essays look back to the years between 1885 and 1914 to find in Germany a mixture of sociopolitical malaise and experimental exhilaration that was similar in many ways to the better-known cases of France and Austria. Revising the view that the German Second Reich was merely a precursor to the Third, this broad-scoped study presents pre–World War I Germany in its own fascinating and often contradictory terms. The foundations of the antiliberal passions that would plague the Weimar Republic are evident, but Wilhelmine society also had a lighter, more playful and moderate spirit, one that was largely extinguished by the Great War. Blending social, cultural, and intellectual history, the contributors—a distinguished cross-section of older and younger scholars—trace changing German views on liberalism, penal reform, race, women, art, popular culture, and technology. They juxtapose better-known figures such as Max Weber, Thomas Mann, and Martin Heidegger with now-forgotten individuals like the Jewish feminist novelist Grete Meisel-Hess and the iconoclastic Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin. Their essay topics range from the esoteric and erotic poetry of Stefan George to the Jewish comedy of the Herrnfeld Theater. “Modernity” is examined from the perspectives of bourgeois cinema-goers and judicial reformers, as well as from the viewpoint of Carl Jung. The result is a variegated picture of an unsettled world, rich in its innovations, ambitious in its undertakings, and often apocalyptic in its dreams.