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The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

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Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: August 13, 2007

ISBN: 0521615615

ISBN 13: 9780521615617

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

Gail Marshall

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Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: August 13, 2007

ISBN: 0521615615

ISBN 13: 9780521615617

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