S. Ledger, Kee Yong Lim, Yong Lim Kee Yong Lim

Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their roots in the 1890s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521484992
• ISBN-10: 0521484995
• Artikelnr.: 21673402

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken; 1. The flight to the real
Terry Eagleton; 2. The New Woman and the crisis of Victorianism Sally
Ledger; 3. Empire, 'race' and feminism in the fin de siècle: the work of
George Egerton and Olive Schreiner Laura Chrisman; 4. W. B. Yeats and Irish
cultural politics in the 1890s Stephen Regan; 5. The double lives of man:
narration and identification in late nineteenth-century representations of
eccentric masculinities Ed Cohen; 6. Henry James and the spectacle of loss:
psychoanalytical metaphysics Marcia Ian; 7. 'A very curious construction':
masculinity and the poetry of A. E. Housman and Oscar Wilde Ruth Robbins;
8. The Pilgrims of Hope: William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism
Anne Janowitz; 9. Urban utopias: socialism, religion and the city,
1880-1900 Lynne Hapgood; 10. Vampires and the empire: fears and fictions of
the 1890s Alexandra Warwick; 11. Utopia, Limited: nationalism, empire and
parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan Carolyn Williams; 12.
Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula Judith Halberstam; 13.
Postmodernism, a chance to re-read? Scott McCracken; 14. Is market society
the fin of history? Regina Gagnier.