Reading Fin De Siecle Fictions

Author : Lyn Pykett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317892453
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions written by Lyn Pykett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fin de siècle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. The essays in this volume form a valuable introduction to fin de siècle cultural studies and provide a commentary on important aspects of current critical debate and the place of culture in society.

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780582333925
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope on a Rope written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Longman. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Pelican Big Books series, this creation story from Africa has a teaching focus on evaluating characters' behaviour and discussing the cultural settings. The series has been specifically written for the shared reading part of the literacy hour and supports the genre requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.

Author : Lyn Pykett
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions written by Lyn Pykett and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fin de siecle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. This book introduces fin de siecle cultural studies and commentates on aspects of current critical debate.

Author : Lyn Pykett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317892461
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions written by Lyn Pykett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fin de siècle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. The essays in this volume form a valuable introduction to fin de siècle cultural studies and provide a commentary on important aspects of current critical debate and the place of culture in society.

Author : Stephen Arata
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521563526
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle written by Stephen Arata and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been widely recognised that British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories which sought to account for the culture's troubles and perhaps assuage its anxieties. Stephen Arata pays close attention to fin de siècle representation of three forms of decline - national, biological and aesthetic - and reveals how late Victorian degeneration theory was used to 'explain' such decline. By examining a wide range of writers - from Kipling to Wilde, from Symonds to Conan Doyle and Stoker - Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period. His account offers new insights for students and scholars of the fin de siècle.

Author : Kirsten MacLeod
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504000
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictions of British Decadence written by Kirsten MacLeod and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel.

Author : Nicholas Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426036
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle written by Nicholas Daly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism, and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly's wide-ranging study argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture.

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198742789
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fin de Siècle written by Sally Ledger and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. Mousoutzanis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137430141
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s-1990s written by A. Mousoutzanis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.

Author : Kate Holterhoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000544656
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction written by Kate Holterhoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America between 1885 and 1920. By studying the lavish illustrations that complemented not only initial serializations, but also subsequent publications of fictions by H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, James De Mille, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells, the book demonstrates the significance of images to the fin de siècle romance form. In order to make fantastic plots seem possible, graphic artists worked hand in hand with authors to not only fill gaps in audience understanding, but also expand and deepen the meaning of these marvels. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, illustration studies, British and American history, and British and American literature.