Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

ISBN-13: 9780582233904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 252 str.

Pykett, Lyn

Opis

The fin de siecle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. This book introduces fin de siecle cultural studies and commentates on aspects of current critical debate.

Spis treści

General Editors' Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  2. Nina Auerback, Magi and Maidens: The Romance of the Victorian Freud  3. Sandra M Gilbert, Rider Haggard's Heart of Darkness  4. Linda Dowling, The Decadent and the New Woman in the 1890s  5. Stephen Heath, Psychopathia Sexualis: Stevenson's Strange Case  6. Richard Dellamora, Homosexual Scandal and Compulsory Heterosexuality in the 1890s  7. Ed Cohen, Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desires in th Closet of Representation  8. Jonathan Dollimore, Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide  9. Daniel Pick, 'Terrors of the night': Dracula and 'degeneration' in the late ninetheenth century  10. Elaine Showalter, Syphilis, Sexuality and the Fiction of the Fin de Siecle  11. Patrick Brantlinger, Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914  12. Benita Parry, The Content and Discontents of Kipling's Imperialism  13. Edward Said, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the Histories of Empire  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Pykett, Lyn