Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index.
Introduction / Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken -- The flight to the real / Terry Eagleton -- The new woman and the crisis of Victorianism / Sally Ledger -- Empire, 'race' and feminism at the fin de siècle : The work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner / Laura Chrisman -- W.B. Yeats and Irish cultural politics in the 1890's / Stephen Regan -- The double lives of man : narration and identification in late nineteenth-century representations of ec-centric masculinities / Ed Cohen -- Henry James and the spectacle of loss : psychoanalytic metaphysics / Marcia Ian -- 'A very curious construction' : masculinity and the poetry of A.E. Housman and Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins -- The pilgrims of hope : William Morris and the dialectic of romanticism / Anne Janowitz -- Urban utopias : socialism, religion and the city, 1880 to 1900 / Lynne Hapgood -- Vampires and the empire : fears and fictions of the 1890s / Alexandra Warwick -- Utopia, limited : nationalism, empire and parody in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan / Carolyn Williams -- Technologies of monstrosity : Bram Stoker's Dracula / Judith Halberstam -- Postmodernism, a Chance to reread? / Scott McCracken -- Is market society the fin of history? / Regenia Gagnier.
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Investigates the ways in which current conflicts of race, gender and class originated in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Social problems in literature.
Culture-- history
Literature, Modern.
Social Environment-- history
Civilization.
Culturele aspecten.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature.
Fin de siècle.
Letterkunde.
Literature and society-- Great Britain-- 19th century.
Literature and society.
Littérature anglaise-- 19e siècle-- Thèmes, motifs.
Littérature et société-- Grande-Bretagne-- 19e siècle.