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Cultural politics at the fin de siècle / edited by Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken

Ledger, Sally,i1961-2009 [Herausgeber] ; McCracken, Scott [Herausgeber]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 329 pages)

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978-0-511-55370-7 ; 978-0-521-44385-2 ; 978-0-521-48499-2

EC 2450 HL 1071 HL 1070 HL 1031 LB 40190

 

f Aufsatzsammlung  Großbritannien  Kulturpolitik  Geistesleben  Literatur  Geschichte 1890-1900 

 

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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.