The Fin-de-Siècle World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Saler, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe.

Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism.

This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317604815
• Artikelnr.: 41849083

Autorenporträt

Michael Saler is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis. His publications include As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (2012); The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: 'Medieval Modernism' and the London Underground (1999) and editor, with Joshua Landy, of The Re-Enchantment of the World (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Michael Saler I: Overviews 1. Global Literatures of Decadence
Regenia Gagnier 2. The City and Urban Life Peter Fritzsche 3. The Second
Industrial Revolution Andreas Killen 4. The Modernity of the Fin de siècle
John Jervis 5. Changing Concepts and Experiences of Time and Space Stephen
Kern II: Places 6. Europe a. France Mark S. Micale b. Britain Nicholas Daly
c. Central Europe Suzanne Marchand d. Russia Olga Matich e. Italy Walter
Adamson f. Spain Lara Anderson 7. United States Richard Cándida Smith 8.
Canada D.M.R. Bentley 9. Latin America Adela Pineda Franco 10. Did China
Have a Fin de Siècle? Maura Dykstra and Jeffrey Wasserstrom 11. Japan
Selcuk Esenbel 12. The Middle East Jens Hanssen 13. India Ruth Vanita 14.
Africa Rebecca J. Saunders III: Politics in a New Key 15. The New
Nationalism T.P. Baycroft 16. The New Imperialism Sascha Auerbach 17. The
New Politics of "Higher Individualism" Chris Nottingham IV. Mass Culture
18. Publishing Chris Hilliard 19. Transports of Speed Andrew Denning 20.
Consumer Culture and Advertising H. Hazel Hahn V. Knowledges 21. The
Universities and the Human Sciences Peter Mandler 22. Philosophy Jennifer
Ratner-Rosenhagen 23. The "New Physics" Helge Kragh 24. Biology and
Eugenics Marius Turda 25. Psychology and Psychiatry Eric Shiraev 26.
Medicine Andrew Smith VI. Selfhood 27. Gender and Sexuality Ann Heilmann
and Mark Llewellyn 28. Race and Ethnicity Laura Tabili VII. Religion and
Spirituality 29. Secularism/Atheism/Agnosticism Vincent P. Pecora 30. The
Jewish Fin de Siècle Olga Litvak 31. Christianity Vincent Lloyd 32. Islam
Mawra Elshakry 33. 2444 A.N.: Buddhism Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 34. New Age
Fin de siècle Gary Lachman VIII. Aesthetics 35. Music and the
Gesamtkunstwerk Mark Berry 36. The Visual Arts Michelle Facos 37. The
Cinema Tom Gunning 38. Scientific Romance, Fantasy, and the Supernatural
Roger Luckhurst 39. Children's Literature Seth Lerer 40. Realism Petra
Dierkes-Thrun Index

Rezensionen

"The Fin-de-Siecle World is an important and timely addition to what has become an interdisciplinary field, focusing on the "crucible of modernity" in late 19th century Europe. The welcome innovation of this volume is to extend our understanding of the fin-de-siecle phenomenon by embedding it within a global and transnational context beyond the epicenters of Paris and London. This book should be of great interest to scholars of European and global modernity."

Mary Gluck, Brown University, USA

"Michael Saler has edited an extremely comprehensive work that covers almost every aspect of the Fin-de-Siecle that students should want to know about. The perspective is global and multi-disciplinary; the contributors are all experts in their respective fields. It should become a standard work for all those interested in the period."

Alan Sked, London School of Economics, UK

"The book's global reach is very welcome... a splendid mosaic."

MargaretMenninger, Texas State University, USA

"Saler's collection is expertly edited, cohesive and coherent. The era under consideration was one characterized by anxiety, by ambiguity, by a kind of grappling with rapid transformations across all aspects of social and individual experience. Saler and his authors capture this beautifully. The book does indeed make a world."

Janine Utell, ELT