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The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Gail (Ed) Marshall
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Paperback. A collection of essays concerning the literature and culture of the fin de siecle period. Editor(s): Marshall, Gail. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 298 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 458. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 298 pages, 9 b/w illus. Editor(s): Marshall, Gail. A collection of essays concerning the literature and culture of the fin de siecle period. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight: 468.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
298
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521615617
SKU
V9780521615617
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About Gail (Ed) Marshall
Gail Marshall is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University.
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
"...the essays in the Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siecle crystallize the period's key concepts, influences, and patterns of thought in clear, illuminating, and unusually insightful ways largely free of obfuscating jargon." -Chris Snodgrass, University of Florida, English Literature in Transition "As someone who teaches fin de sie`cle courses every semester, I am very pleased to see the ... Read more