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1900 A Fin-de-Siecle Reader

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ISBN-10: 0141180838

ISBN-13: 9780141180830

Edition: 1999

Authors: Mike R. Jay, Michael Neve, Michael Neve

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Bringing together poetry and pulp fiction, scientific polemic and sexological speculation alongside classic texts, 1900 offers an astonishing range of fascinating, and often shocking, writing.
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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was an evolutionary scientist whose The Origin of Species(1859) is one of the most important scientific works ever written.

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Faces of the Future: Evolution and Degeneration
The Time Machine
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Pathology of Mind
The Formation of Vegetable Mould
'Lay of the Trilobite'
Degeneration
'The Empty House'
'Hereditary Vices'
Prince Zaleski
'Dexterity and the Bend Sinister'
The Novel of the Black Seal
The Neuroses of Development
The Decline of the West
The Wonderful Century
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
National Life and The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics
'Human Evolution, An Artificial Process'
'Mr Balfour's Attack on Agnosticism'
Pandora's Box: Science
'Life in Our New Century'
'The New Wizard of the West'
'The Devilphone'
'The Broomstick Train'
'A Plea for Gas Lamps'
'On the Dissipation of Energy'
The Golden Bough
Darwinism in Morals and Other Essays
The Time Machine
Mars as the Abode of Life
The War of the Worlds
'Man's Place in the Universe'
From India to the Planet Mars
'To the Chief Musician Upon Nabla'
'The Poison Belt'
The Death of God: Atheism
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
'The Future of an Illusion'
The War of the Worlds
On the Genealogy of Morality
Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Maldoror
'The Will to Believe'
'The laws of God, the laws of man'
Degeneration
The Coming Race
The Riddle of the Universe
Theozoology
Beyond Reason?: Spiritualism and the New Age
On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism
Presidential Address to the Society for Psychical Research
Phenomena of Materialization
Spiritualistic Madness
The Transcendental Universe
Studies in Occultism
Transcendental Magic
'The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers'
A New Era of Thought
Flatland
Tertium Organum
Return of the Repressed: The Unconscious
Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System
'The Case of Fraulein Anna O.'
'Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria'
Trilby
Inferno
'Increase of Insanity'
The Crowd
The Island of Doctor Moreau
'Burglars with Hypnotic Eyes'
'Another Murder--and More to Follow?'
Studies in Occultism
The Birth of Tragedy
Artistry of the Mentally Ill
dAdaIstiC ManIfestO!
The Doctor's After Thoughts
Trilby
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases
'The Brewing of Soma'
Degeneration
The Arrival of the Deviant: Sexology
Psychopathia Sexualis
Sexual Inversion
'Gender and Illness'
The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
Sexual Anomalies
'Song of Myself'
'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'
Letter to the Home Secretary
Syphilis and Marriage
Ghosts
Syphilis and Marriage
The Heavenly Twins
Love's Coming of Age: The New Woman
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The Woman Who Did
Love's Coming-of-Age
'The Ultimate Destiny of Man'
'Science Proves Woman Inferior'
'The "Can" and "Shall" of Woman-Culture'
Sex and Character
Mondo Exotica: The New Frontiers
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Nature
The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook
The People of the Abyss
'Krao, the "Human Monkey"'
'The Sign of Four'
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Doctor Fu Manchu
The Secret Agent
Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration
The Angel of the Revolution
Before Armageddon: Rumours of Total War
The Psychology of the Great War
The Debacle
Memorandum prepared by Surgeon-General Sir William Taylor
'Mad Drunk with Cordite'
'The Battle of Dorking'
Scouting for Boys
'The Fight for Right'
The Great War in England in 1897
The Principles of Sociology
'The Moral Equivalent of War'
Imagining the Next Century: Regeneration
The Coming Race
News from Nowhere
A Modern Utopia
The Futurist Manifesto
Paris in the Twentieth Century
Letter to Freud
Die Armanenschaft der Ario-Germanen
Looking Backward
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
The Iron Heel
Feeble-Mindedness
Lethal Chambers for the Insane
The King in Yellow
Sterilization Law of Indiana
Coda
Treatise on Degenerations of the Human Race
On the Origin of Species
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