Fictions of loss in the Victorian fin de siècle /
It has been widely recognized that British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories which sought to account for th...
| Основен автор: | Arata, Stephen. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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Table of contents Publisher description |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: Decline and fall
- 1. Strange cases, common fates: degeneration and fiction in the Victorian fin de siecle
- 2. The sedulous ape: atavism, professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde
- 3. Wilde's trials: reading erotics and the erotics of reading
- 4. Men at work: from heroic friendship to male romance
- 5. The Occidental tourist: Stoker and reverse colonization
- 6. Strange events and extraordinary combinations: Sherlock Holmes and the pathology of everyday life
- 7. A universal foreignness: Kipling, race, and the great tradition
- Conclusion: Modernist empires and the rise of English.