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"This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge uphe...

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Other Authors: Saler, Michael T., 1960- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge worlds.
Subjects:
Nineteenth century.
Civilization, Modern > 19th century.
History, Modern > 19th century.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > World.
HISTORY > Modern > 19th Century.
Civilization, Modern.
History, Modern.
Fin de siècle
Kultur
Gesellschaft
1800-1899
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael Saler
  • PART I. OVERVIEWS. Global literatures of decadence / Regenia Gagnier
  • The city and urban life / Peter Fritzsche
  • The second industrial revolution / Andreas Killen
  • The modernity of the fin de siècle / John Jervis
  • Changing concepts and experiences of time and space / Stephen Kern
  • PART II. PLACES. France / Mark S. Micale
  • Britain / Nicholas Daly
  • Central Europe / Suzanne Marchand
  • Russia / Olga Matich
  • Italy / Walter Adamson
  • Spain / Lara Anderson
  • The United States / Richard Cándida Smith
  • Canada / D.M.R. Bentley
  • Latin America / Adela Pineda Franco
  • Did China have a fin de siècle? / Maura Dykstra and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  • Japan / Selçuk Esenbel
  • The Middle East / Jens Hanssen
  • India / Ruth Vanita
  • Africa / Rebecca Saunders
  • PART III. POLITICS IN A NEW KEY. The new nationalism / Timothy Baycroft
  • The new imperialism / Sascha Auerbach
  • The new politics of "higher individualism" / Chris Nottingham
  • PART IV. MASS CULTURE. Publishing / Christopher Hilliard
  • Transports of speed / Andrew Denning
  • Consumer culture and advertising / H. Hazel Hahn
  • PART V. DISCIPLINES. The universities and the human sciences / Peter Mandler
  • Philosophy / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
  • The "new physics" / Helge Kragh
  • Biology and eugenics / Marius Turda
  • Psychology and psychiatry / Eric Shiraev
  • Medicine / Andrew Smith
  • PART VI. SELFHOOD. Gender and sexuality / Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn
  • Race and ethnicity / Laura Tabili
  • PART VII. RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY. Secularism/atheism/agnosticism / Vincent P. Pecora
  • The Jewish fin de siècle / Olga Litvak
  • Christianity / Vincent Lloyd
  • Islam / Mawra Elshakry
  • 2444 A.N. : Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
  • New Age fin de siècle / Gary Lachman
  • PART VIII. AESTHETICS. Music and the Gesamtkunstwerk / Mark Berry
  • The visual arts / Michelle Facos
  • The cinema / Tom Gunning
  • Scientific romance, fantasy, and the supernatural / Roger Luckhurst
  • Children's literature / Seth Lerer
  • Realism / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.