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Fin de Si�cle A Reader in Cultural History, C. 1880-1900

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ISBN-10: 0198742797

ISBN-13: 9780198742791

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sally Ledger, Roger Luckhurst

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In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-sicle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes which carefully situate…    
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List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Sally Ledger is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London.

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Introduction: Reading the Fin de Siecle, Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst
Editors' Note
Degeneration
Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880)
'Zoological Retrogression' (1891)
Degeneration (1895)
Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau (1895)
William James
The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1895/1908)
Outcast London
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883)
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon (1885)
Charles Booth
In Darkest England - and the Way Out (1890)
The Metropolis
Gustave Le Bon
Georg Simmel
Arthur Symons
Why We Attacked the Empire (1895)
The New Woman
Marriage (1888)
Character Note: The New Woman (1894)
Why Women are Ceasing to Marry (1899)
The New Aspect of the Woman Question (1894)
Plain Words on the Woman Question (1889)
The New Woman in Fiction and Fact (1894)
An Appeal Against Female Suffrage (1889)
Female Suffrage: A Reply (1889)
Literary Debates
Realism and Romance (1886)
The Decadent Movement in Literature (1893)
Candour in English Fiction (1890)
Tommyrotics (1895)
Editorial Comment
Henrik Ibsen (1889)
The New Imperialism
The forward policy
The Expansion of England (1883)
The True Conception of Empire (1897)
speech at Drill Hall, Cape Town (July 18, 1899)
Reportage
General Gordon, The Illustrated London News (Feb 14, 1885)
Ten Years Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-92 (1893)
The Battle of Omdurman, With Kitchener to Khartum (1898)
Relief of Mafeking and London's Roar of Jubilation, Daily Mail (May 19
Affairs on the Upper Congo, The Times (May 14, 1897)
Critique
Bloody Niggers (1897)
An English South African's View of the Situation (1899)
Imperialism: A Study (1902)
The Story of the Congo Free State (1920)
Socialism
How We Live and How We might Live (1887)
The Economic Basis of Socialism (1889)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Women and Socialism (1907)
Anarchism
Words of a Rebel (1885)
Anarchy (1888)
Letter to Commonweal (May 18, 1889)
Anarchist, Letter to Commonweal (June 22, 1889)
The Explosion in Greenwich Park and Bourdin's Antecedents, The Times (February 17, 1894)
Anarchism: What it Really Stands for (1911)
Scientific Naturalism
On the Physical Basis of Life (1870)
On the Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought (1872)
Belfast Address, British Association (1874)
A Grammar of Science (1892)
Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Psychology
Hysteria, Dictionary of Psychological Medicine (1893)
On the Psychical Mechanism of hysterical phenomena (1893)
The Subliminal Consciousness (1891)
The Stream of Thought, The Principles of Psychology (1890)
Nervous Diseases and Modern Life (1895)
Psychical Research
Objects of the Society (1882)
Address of the President at the First General Meeting (1882)
Psychical Research, Pall Mall Gazette (Oct 21, 1882)
Thought-Reading (1882)
How We intend to Study Borderland (1893)
My Experience of Automatic Writing (1893)
Ghosts up to Date (1894)
Sexology
Nymphomania in Dictionary of Psychological Medicine (1893)
Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
The Intermediate Sex (1894/1906)
A Problem in Modern Ethics, being an inquiry into the phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists (1896)
Case XVIII [John Addington Symonds], Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion (1897)
Anthropology and Racial Science
The Culture of Science, Primitive Culture (1871)
The Primitive Man - Physical, The Primitive Man - Emotional, The Primitive Man - Intellectual, The Principles of Sociology (1876)
National Life from the Standpoint of Science (1900)
Eugenics: its definition, scope and aims (1903)
The Clash of Cultures, West African Studies (1899)
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits (volume II): Preface by A. C. Haddon and Introduction by W. H. R. Rivers (1901)
Sources of Material
Secondary Reading
Index